13.459, Qs: Lang Use in Relocated Lang Communities, Stress

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Subject: 13.459, Qs: Lang Use in Relocated Lang Communities, Stress

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1)
Date:  Sat, 16 Feb 2002 17:58:42 +0400
From:  "John & Debbie Clifton" <debbie-john_clifton at sil.org>
Subject:  language use in relocated language communities

2)
Date:  Tue, 19 Feb 2002 13:41:57 +0100
From:  Joaquim Brandãode Carvalho <jbrandao at ext.jussieu.fr>
Subject:  VOT and stress

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

Date:  Sat, 16 Feb 2002 17:58:42 +0400
From:  "John & Debbie Clifton" <debbie-john_clifton at sil.org>
Subject:  language use in relocated language communities

I am posting the following request for information for a student of
mine.  Please send all replies to Calvin Tiessen:
<calvin_tiessen at sil.org>. He has agreed to post a summary.

Talysh is a less-widely-spoken language in the south of Azerbaijan and
the north of Iran. Most speakers of Talysh are also relatively
proficient in their use of the national language, Azerbaijani. I am
currently involved in research regarding language use and attitudes
among members of the Talysh community in Azerbaijan who have moved
from their traditionally rural locations to the urban communities in
and around Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, where Azerbajani and
Russian are the languages of wider communication.

I have had difficulty locating literature discussing language use and
attitudes elsewhere in similar situations. I would appreciate any
suggestions anyone might have regarding appropriate literature, and
will post a summary.


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Date:  Tue, 19 Feb 2002 13:41:57 +0100
From:  Joaquim Brandãode Carvalho <jbrandao at ext.jussieu.fr>
Subject:  VOT and stress

Dear colleagues,

I am working on the possible relationships between VOT and stress. I
am concerned in particular with alternations as the one shown by
proto-Germanic (Verner's law) or by chinook (E. Sapir, Sound patterns
in language, 1925) :

WApul "night" / waBULmax "nights"
(capitals = stressed syllable)

My questions are :

(1) Do you know of other examples of such alternations?

(2) Do you know of cases in which VOT either behaves differently :
i.e. *WAbul / *waPULmax,
or involves another feature :
e.g. *WAphul / *waPULmax ?

(3) In any case, could you please let me know the basic rule
governing stress directionality in the language(s) at issue
(left>right or right>left)?

Thank you very much for your help. I'll post a summary of the responses.
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Joaquim Brandao de Carvalho
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Departement de linguistique
Faculte des Sciences Humaines et Sociales - Sorbonne
Universite Rene Descartes - Paris V
CNRS : UMR 7018, GDR 1954

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