7.1710, Qs: Mexican prosody, Bib info, Mysterious symbol

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LINGUIST List:  Vol-7-1710. Thu Dec 5 1996. ISSN: 1068-4875. Lines:  159
 
Subject: 7.1710, Qs: Mexican prosody, Bib info, Mysterious symbol
 
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Date:  Wed, 27 Nov 1996 20:04:09 MST
From:  pfarr at uclink4.berkeley.edu (Peter Farruggio)
Subject:  help with Mexican prosody
 
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Date:  Thu, 28 Nov 1996 00:55:41 EST
From:  aya at omni.cc.purdue.edu (Aya Matsuda)
Subject:  Bib info
 
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Date:  Wed, 27 Nov 1996 14:30:08 CST
From:  afukada at purdue.edu (Atsushi Fukada)
Subject:  Q: mysterious symbol
 
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Date:  Wed, 27 Nov 1996 20:04:09 MST
From:  pfarr at uclink4.berkeley.edu (Peter Farruggio)
Subject:  help with Mexican prosody
 
Dear linguists,
 
I am a bilingual educator/researcher (not a trained linguist)
attempting to do some classroom discourse analysis as part of a larger
project
 
I need help in understanding the possible discourse functions of a
prosodic feature that is fairly widespread and peculiar to Mexican
Spanish
 
I will attempt to describe this in musical terms:
 
In the phrase
 
la comida no sirve
 
the syllables la and co are the last two beats of a triplet
 
mi da and no are a full triplet
 
sir is heavily stressed, is held for a half beat (the downbeat) and is
pitched several tones higher than the previous syllables
 
ve is unstressed, drops about a half tone in pitch, starts as the
downbeat and is held for several beats
 
another example
 
pues, aqui no hay nadie
 
 
pues and a are unstressed and sped up to form the last two beats of a
triplet
 
qui  and no  and hay   form a triplet  with a minor stress on qui
 
na is heavily stressed and is several tones higher then the previous
syllables
 
die is unstressed, a half tone below na and is held for several beats
 
 
It seems that this is a poetic sort of emphasis device.  It has a very
song-like quality.
 
 
what I'd like to know is if anyone has studied this to discover some
sort of generality that carries across situations...or is this a
rhetorical device that strictly depends on the situation for
interpretation?
 
 
Can anyone help?
 
Pete Farruggio
 
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Date:  Thu, 28 Nov 1996 00:55:41 EST
From:  aya at omni.cc.purdue.edu (Aya Matsuda)
Subject:  Bib info
 
 
Could you please contact me if you have bib info for the following
article?  I have a copy but cannot remember where it came from.
 
Author:  Han, Chung-hye (University of Pennsylvania, Graduate school of
         Education)
Year:  1992?
Title:  A comparative study of compliment responses: Korean females in
Korean interactions and in English interaction.
 
Thank you.
 
Aya Matsuda
Purdue Unviersity
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Date:  Wed, 27 Nov 1996 14:30:08 CST
From:  afukada at purdue.edu (Atsushi Fukada)
Subject:  Q: mysterious symbol
 
Dear linguists,
 
I found a mysterious symbol on a necklace the other day.  It can be viewed
at the following URL.
 
http://www.sla.purdue.edu/fll/symbol.html
 
Could anybody tell me what the symbol is?  I would appreciate any
suggestions.  Please respond to me directly.
 
Thank you very much.
 
Atsushi Fukada
 
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Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures
Purdue University
Stanley Coulter Hall
West Lafayette, IN 47907
U.S.A.
 
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