film=fillum

[Dennis R. Preston]

If you look back in an old issue of Lingua Pranca (IU Linguistics
Club publication), you will find words which (when appropriately
modified) are themselves examples of the phonetic/phonological
processes they name. My favorite was something like vowol hormono,
although I'm also sure epenethesis was also there.

Wasn't there some bullshit about linguists lacking funny bones a week
or so ago?

dInIs

>My son told me yesterday that he and his buddies were engaging in a
>triathalon; my principal calls my colleague Kathaleen; and many kids
>in our school speak of athaletes; a lady at my church sells
>property--she's a realator.
>Another cool word for this is svarabhakti.  When discussing Old High
>German, we often use the term "Sprossvokal," sprout(ing) vowel.
>
>FWIW, Dutch also has 'fillum' and the like.
>Fritz J
>
>>>>  douglas at NB.NET 05/28/05 10:07AM >>>
>At 10:15 AM 5/28/2005, you wrote:
>>
>
>Another word for this vowel-epenthesis is _anaptyxis_, apparently. Isn't
>that a cute word? Maybe not used every day by some of us laymen. [Sometimes
>pronounced "anapatickasis"? (^_^)]
>
>-- Doug Wilson


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Dennis R. Preston
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