Query Details
| Query Subject: |
Names for Syllabic constituents
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| Author: | Alain Content | |
| Submitter Email: | click here to access email | |
| Linguistic LingField(s): |
Text/Corpus Linguistics
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| Query: |
We need to find a quick-and-easy term to refer to the constituent
corresponding to the initial and final part of syllables, ie, C*V and VC*. In the psycholinguistic literature, ''body'' and ''rime'' are standardly used to refer to the nucleus+ coda constituent. Body is being used more often to refer to the orthographic equivalent of the rime. However, there does not seem to be an agreed label for the constituent corresponding to the Onset+Nucleus. After a few days and nights of harsh debates and headaches, we failed to reach and agreement, but had a number of suggestions : Start, Head, Init, Trunk, Front, Fore Some authors have also used Antibody, but, somehow, we don't really find it transparent. But some colleague told us that Head meant something different in current phonological theories. Is there a standard term? Anyone would dare a suggestion o r an advice Thanks in advance. I'm planning to do intonation studies for my doctoral thesis. But for the English part of my data, I've found it virtually impossible to do some first-hand collecting here in CHina. Also, I've learned that the London-Lund Corpus contains detailed suprasegmental transcription(including intonational information), as does the Lancaster Spoken English Corpus. But seems even these two are not readily availble in China. Is there anybody who knows where I can have asscess to these two corpus (or perhaps some other corpus of soken ENglish)? Any information would be greatly appreciated. And I'll post a summary. Zuo Yan I'm posting this for Andrew Sihler. Please respond directly to him, at ASIHL@macc.wisc.edu. A recent Undergraduate major of ours has written to say that he's interested in language textbook and dictionary design. He wonders whether there's a graduate program anywhere that is oriented toward (or includes an orientation toward) such enterprises. It looks linguistical to me, but it also looks to be off the beaten path. I'd be grateful for any ideas/hunches. A friend of mine needs information on how the following words are pronounced. They are Gaelic names that first appeared in The Epic ''Ossian''. Goethe translated it into German and included a part of this epic--''the Song of Selma''--in his novel ''The Sorrow of Young Werther''. My friend would like to know how these names should be pronounced in the original Gaelic version. Oscar, Ullin, Ryno, Alpin, Morglan, Armin, Carmor, Colgar, Colmar, Daura, Arindal, Fura, Armar, Erath, Morven. Would greatly appreciate any help. Kalaya Tingsabadh |
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| LL Issue: | 8.108 | |
| Date posted: | 26-Jan-1997 | |
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