10.936, Qs: Academic Presentations, Retroflex Consonants

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LINGUIST List:  Vol-10-936. Wed Jun 16 1999. ISSN: 1068-4875.

Subject: 10.936, Qs: Academic Presentations, Retroflex Consonants

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Date:  Wed, 16 Jun 1999 19:56:10 +0900
From:  Atsuko Umesaki <umesaki at pigeon.tezukayama-u.ac.jp>
Subject:  Questionaire on Academic Presentations

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Date:  Wed, 16 Jun 1999 16:56:12 -0400
From:  "Matthew J. Makashay" <makashay at ling.ohio-state.edu>
Subject:  Retroflex Consonants

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Date:  Wed, 16 Jun 1999 19:56:10 +0900
From:  Atsuko Umesaki <umesaki at pigeon.tezukayama-u.ac.jp>
Subject:  Questionaire on Academic Presentations

Questionnaire on academic presentations.  Please help us learn more
about them!

The JACET (Japan Association of College English Teachers) Kansai
Chapter Oral English Special Interest Group is conducting a research
project on academic presentations.  We would like to ask your help in
responding to this SHORT questionnaire.

Please contact y_ishikawa at kufs.ac.jp to receive the questionnaire.


-------------------------------- Message 2 -------------------------------

Date:  Wed, 16 Jun 1999 16:56:12 -0400
From:  "Matthew J. Makashay" <makashay at ling.ohio-state.edu>
Subject:  Retroflex Consonants

Dear Linguists,

I am currently looking for information on the phonological patterning
of retroflex consonants, and apical consonants, especially with
regards to any assimilatory processes found in any languages which
have these sounds. Bhat (1974) notes that historically, retroflex
consonants often are limited to contexts where there are only back
vowels either preceding them or following them, referring mostly to
Native American languages and Indic languages.. Though Bhat sites many
languages where retroflex consonants have such skewed distributions -
I have had much difficulty in finding sources illustrating this
phenomenon. I would really appreciate hearing about any phonological
processes - whether synchronic or diachronic - where retroflex
consonants behave as 'back' consonants in some way , or where there is
any implication between retroflex consonants and back vowels.

Please reply directly to me at amiller at ling.ohio-state.edu and I will
post a summary to the list later.

Amanda Miller-Ockhuizen
Dept. of Linguistics
222 Oxley Hall
1712 Neil Avenue
Columbus, Ohio 43210

Phone: (614)292-8878
Email: amiller at ling.ohio-state.edu
web: http://www.ling.ohio-state.edu/~amiller/

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