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[Laurence Horn]

At 2:34 PM -0400 5/31/05, Benjamin Zimmer wrote:
>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
>
Ah, when I saw that URL I was wondering if there was a link with the
(far less complete) collection of self-referentiana we used to add to
on the blackboard in the linguistics library at UCLA in the late
'60s.  With the acknowledgment to Russ Schuh at the web site, I
suspect there is indeed a direct link, although there may have been a
merger with other, non-UCLA scholarly traditions along the way.

larry