7.1493, Qs: Vowel harmony, American epenthetic "r"

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LINGUIST List:  Vol-7-1493. Wed Oct 23 1996. ISSN: 1068-4875. Lines:  73
 
Subject: 7.1493, Qs: Vowel harmony, American epenthetic "r"
 
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Date:  Wed, 23 Oct 1996 15:24:01 EDT
From:  BLIO at MUSICB.MCGILL.CA ("HAYHOE,MICHELLE CAROLYN,MS")
Subject:  vowel harmony
 
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Date:  Wed, 23 Oct 1996 19:16:04 EDT
From:  Zman890 at aol.com
Subject:  the American epenthetic "r"
 
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Date:  Wed, 23 Oct 1996 15:24:01 EDT
From:  BLIO at MUSICB.MCGILL.CA ("HAYHOE,MICHELLE CAROLYN,MS")
Subject:  vowel harmony
 
Hello,
 
   My name is Michelle Hayhoe.  I am doing research in vowel harmony
for my undergraduate thesis here at McGill University.  I am parti-
cularly interested in patterns of bounded feature spreading involving
no more than two syllables.  Could anyone please supply any relevant
references and/or information?  I will post a summary on the network
of my findings.  Thanks in advance.
          Michelle
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Date:  Wed, 23 Oct 1996 19:16:04 EDT
From:  Zman890 at aol.com
Subject:  the American epenthetic "r"
 
Dear fellow linguists,
 
     I am desperately searching for information about the epenthetic
"r" found in words like "warsh" (wash) and Warshington (Washington).
I know that this phenomena is only found in certain American dialects
(perhaps in Northern California, Oregon, and Idaho), however that is
as much as I have been able to find.  I would really appreciate any
anecdotal, as well as quantitative information concerning this
linguistic variation.
 
                                                   Thank you in advance,
 
                                                       Jennifer van Vorst
                                                       Portland State
                                                       University
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