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Query Subject:	language use in relocated language communities
Author:	John & Debbie Clifton
Submitter Email:	click here to access email

Linguistic LingField(s):	General Linguistics

Query:	Dear colleagues, I am working on the possible relationships between VOT and stress. I am concerned in particular with alternations as the one shown by proto-Germanic (Verner's law) or by chinook (E. Sapir, Sound patterns in language, 1925) : WApul ''night'' / waBULmax ''nights'' (capitals = stressed syllable) My questions are : (1) Do you know of other examples of such alternations? (2) Do you know of cases in which VOT either behaves differently : i.e. WAbul / waPULmax, or involves another feature : e.g. WAphul / waPULmax ? (3) In any case, could you please let me know the basic rule governing stress directionality in the language(s) at issue (left>right or right>left)? Thank you very much for your help. I'll post a summary of the responses. - Joaquim Brandao de Carvalho 320, rue des Pyr鮩es 75020 Paris France Tel./fax : 01 43 66 95 24 (If calling from outside France, please replace the prefix '0' with the country number '33'.) jbrandao@ext.jussieu.fr Departement de linguistique Faculte des Sciences Humaines et Sociales - Sorbonne Universite Rene Descartes - Paris V CNRS : UMR 7018, GDR 1954 If you send an attachment, please use the RTF format
LL Issue:	13.459
Date posted:	19-Feb-2002
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