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Benjamin Zimmer
bgzimmer at RCI.RUTGERS.EDU
Tue May 31 18:34:48 UTC 2005
On Tue, 31 May 2005 11:23:26 -0400, Dennis R. Preston <preston at MSU.EDU>
wrote:
>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.
There's a list here-- don't know if it originated with Lingua Pranca:
http://www.linguistics.ucla.edu/ulsa/glossary.html
--Ben Zimmer
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