<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">It’s not quite the same as heavy and light, but David Sapir has some work on the big and thin distinction in Jóola-Kujamaat (Diola-Fogny) spoken in Senegal. These terms refer to relative usage of the tense/lax vowel vowel harmony system. They're used to distinguish individuals and subgroups who harmonize more than others. “Big” speakers harmonize more than “thin” speakers. <div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Citation I have handy: </div><div class="">Sapir, J. David. 1975. Big and thin; two Diola-Fogny meta linguistic terms. <i class="">Lang. Soc.</i> 4: 1–15. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div class="">
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<div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On May 19, 2021, at 6:09 AM, Peter Austin <<a href="mailto:pa2@soas.ac.uk" class="">pa2@soas.ac.uk</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="auto" class="">David Nash gave a talk about this terminology at an ALS in Brisbane many years ago. Not sure if it was ever published.<div dir="auto" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" class="">Best</div><div dir="auto" class="">Peter</div><div dir="auto" class=""><br class=""></div></div><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, 19 May 2021, 11:19 Alan Rumsey, <<a href="mailto:Alan.Rumsey@anu.edu.au" class="">Alan.Rumsey@anu.edu.au</a>> wrote:<br class=""></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<div class="m_6335254199203682030WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt" class="">I have been in conversation with Charles Zuckerman about his work in
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</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;letter-spacing:-.05pt" class="">Laos on the use of a 'heavy'/'light' distinction by speakers of the local languages to characterise them in relation to one another. In my fieldwork in the Kimberley region of WA I have
also often heard speakers of Indigenous languages make use of a 'heavy'/'light' distinction when characterising languages/dialects. I am wondering how widespread that is across Australia and beyond. Has anyone else of you has come across it? If so, where?
Can any of you refer us to any other published discussions on this topic besides the one below? If so could you please send them in a reply to me and the cc’d addresses above?<u class=""></u><u class=""></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;letter-spacing:-.05pt" class=""><u class=""></u> <u class=""></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt" class="">Zuckerman,<span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt" class="">
</span>Charles<span style="letter-spacing:-.15pt" class=""> </span>H.<span style="letter-spacing:-.15pt" class="">
</span>P.,<span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt" class=""> </span>and<span style="letter-spacing:-.15pt" class="">
</span>N.<span style="letter-spacing:-.15pt" class=""> </span>J.<span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt" class="">
</span>Enfield</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt" class=""> 2020. <span style="letter-spacing:2.55pt" class="">
</span>Heavy<span style="letter-spacing:-.15pt" class=""> </span>Sound<span style="letter-spacing:-.15pt" class="">
</span>Light<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt" class=""> </span>Sound:<span style="letter-spacing:-.15pt" class="">
</span>A<span style="letter-spacing:-.15pt" class=""> </span>Nam<span style="letter-spacing:-.15pt" class="">
</span>Noi<span style="letter-spacing:-.15pt" class=""> </span>Metalinguistic<span style="letter-spacing:-.15pt" class="">
</span>Trope.<span style="letter-spacing:-.15pt" class=""> </span><i class="">In<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt" class="">
</span></i>Studies<span style="letter-spacing:-.15pt" class=""> </span>in<span style="letter-spacing:-.15pt" class="">
</span>the Anthropology<span style="letter-spacing:-.25pt" class=""> </span>of<span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt" class="">
</span>Language<span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt" class=""> </span>in<span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt" class="">
</span>Mainland<span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt" class=""> </span>Southeast<span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt" class="">
</span>Asia<span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt" class=""> </span>Pp.<span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt" class="">
</span>85–92.<span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt" class=""> </span>JSEALS<span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt" class="">
</span>Special Publication,<span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt" class=""> </span>6.<span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt" class="">
</span>University<span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt" class=""> </span>of<span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt" class="">
</span>Hawai’i<span style="letter-spacing:-.15pt" class=""> </span>Press.<u class=""></u><u class=""></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:30.45pt"><span lang="EN-US" class=""><u class=""></u> <u class=""></u></span></p>
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