10.1160, Qs: Trills, Q Consecutives, "Verlan" in Italian

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LINGUIST List:  Vol-10-1160. Wed Aug 4 1999. ISSN: 1068-4875.

Subject: 10.1160, Qs: Trills, Q Consecutives, "Verlan" in Italian

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1)
Date:  Tue, 3 Aug 1999 12:34:02 +0200 (MDT)
From:  Julian Bradfield <jcb at daimi.au.dk>
Subject:  learning trills

2)
Date:  Tue, 3 Aug 1999 12:01:40 -0400 (EDT)
From:  Vincent DeCaen <decaen at chass.utoronto.ca>
Subject:  Q consecutives?

3)
Date:  Wed, 04 Aug 99 12:03:56 +0200 (MET)
From:  Elmar Schafroth <elmar.schafroth at phil.uni-augsburg.de>
Subject:  "Verlan" in Italian

-------------------------------- Message 1 -------------------------------

Date:  Tue, 3 Aug 1999 12:34:02 +0200 (MDT)
From:  Julian Bradfield <jcb at daimi.au.dk>
Subject:  learning trills

I am one of those unfortunate native English speakers who seems
unable to learn to pronounce [r]. (At least, on good days I can
produce a 2 or 3 tap [r] in easy (e.g. intervocalic) positions, but I
can't make the sustained trill that should be simple---though I have
no problem with a sustained bilabial trill :-)

I think this particular mental block is not all that uncommon, so I
wonder if any of the colleagues on this list who teach practical
phonetics have any helpful pieces of advice on producing this sound:
ranging from precise descriptions of the tongue position before the
trill starts, to impressionism and tricks.
(There was a discussion on the "vocalist" list last year, which gave a
few singing-teachers' tips, so no need to refer me to that.)

If you would like to give any such advice, please send it to me; I
will then summarize to the list later.


As a sub-question, one of the contributors to the vocalist discussion
asserted that there is a significant number of people who are
physically unable to produce a genuine [r] as they have "sub-standard
mouths" (!). This sounds implausible to me: is there actually any
wide-spread physical inability to produce *any* common sound?


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Date:  Tue, 3 Aug 1999 12:01:40 -0400 (EDT)
From:  Vincent DeCaen <decaen at chass.utoronto.ca>
Subject:  Q consecutives?

languages like biblical hebrew, ancient egyptian, as well as zulu and
swahili, have special forms for modal coordination in sequences: there
are two forms, negation is a problem, keying on realis/irrealis
distinction, etc.
my question, do we not have such robust sequencing with special
modal-coordinate forms in other language families around the world?
Palmer in his 1986 study of mood only pointed to Fula.

thanks.
V
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Dr Vincent DeCaen     <decaen at chass.utoronto.ca>
c/o Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations, 4 Bancroft Ave., 2d floor
University of Toronto, Toronto ON, CANADA, M5S 1A1

Hebrew Syntax Encoding Initiative, www.chass.utoronto.ca/~decaen/hsei/


-------------------------------- Message 3 -------------------------------

Date:  Wed, 04 Aug 99 12:03:56 +0200 (MET)
From:  Elmar Schafroth <elmar.schafroth at phil.uni-augsburg.de>
Subject:  "Verlan" in Italian

Dear Linguists,

Does anyone know literature about the phenomenon of "verlan"
(reverse of syllables, e.g., to cite a French example, bran-che' -
che'-bran) in ITALIAN?
Perhaps some Italian native speaker remembers the use of such
language games or even some examples.

Thanks a lot

Elmar


PD Dr. habil. Elmar Schafroth
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