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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Thrasher in his dissertation discusses many examples that are not truncated questions:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"inherit",serif;color:#525960">(1.16) <i><span style="border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Gotta go now.</span></i><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">From:
</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Lingtyp <lingtyp-bounces@listserv.linguistlist.org> on behalf of Ian Maddieson <ianm@berkeley.edu><br>
<b>Date: </b>Tuesday, November 1, 2022 at 8:11 PM<br>
<b>To: </b>David Gil <gil@shh.mpg.de><br>
<b>Cc: </b>lingtyp@listserv.linguistlist.org <lingtyp@listserv.linguistlist.org><br>
<b>Subject: </b>Re: [Lingtyp] query: 1st syllable deletion<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">I’m struck by the fact that most of the English examples cited are truncated questions, where intonation<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">may signal the sentence type, so the V/S inversion is redundant. I can think of quite a few examples,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">such as “Going home?”, “Making a pie?”, “Raining again?”, even “Drink?”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Ian <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">On Nov 1, 2022, at 03:58, David Gil <<a href="mailto:gil@shh.mpg.de">gil@shh.mpg.de</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Nice examples, Cat. Though if the gist of these examples is to suggest that deletion can apply to two syllables and not just to one, then I would offer an possible alternative analysis whereby your two sentences
involve the deletion of a reduced monosyllable, applying to forms such as<br>
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[zðæt] feel good, baby?<br>
[jə] have any luck?<br>
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I look forward to reading the Gerken article mentioned by Adam, which seems to capture my intuitions that whatever is going on here is at least partly of a phonological nature.<br>
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David<br>
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On 01/11/2022 11:30, Cat Butz wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">To me, it feels more like a morphosyntactic thing rather than a phonological one. Consider e.g.<br>
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(Does that) Feel good, baby?<br>
(Did you) Have any luck?<br>
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Cat Butz (she/they)<br>
HHU Düsseldorf, General Linguistics<br>
Institute of Language and Information<br>
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Cat Butz (sie)<br>
HHU Düsseldorf, Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft<br>
Institut für Sprache und Information<br>
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Am 2022-10-28 14:11, schrieb David Gil:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Dear all,<br>
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English seems to have a rule which, under particular conditions,<br>
allows for the first syllable of an utterance to be deleted. The<br>
first example below is from a movie that I saw last night, the next<br>
two are made up:<br>
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(1) (What) The fuck happened to you?<br>
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(2) (Are) You going home yet?<br>
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(3) (I) Think it's gonna rain<br>
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And there's also the formulaic "Wish you were here".<br>
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My questions:<br>
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1. Has anybody written about this? Seems like it could be interesting<br>
for a number of reasons.<br>
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2. Are there similar phenomena in other languages? (Haven't seen<br>
anything like it in the other languages I happen to be familiar with.)<br>
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Thanks,<br>
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David<br>
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