6.396 Qs: Old Irish, Spontaneous nasalisation, Canadian English

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LINGUIST List:  Vol-6-396. Mon 20 Mar 1995. ISSN: 1068-4875. Lines: 85
 
Subject: 6.396 Qs: Old Irish, Spontaneous nasalisation, Canadian English
 
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Date: Tue, 14 Mar 1995 15:22:19 -0500 (EST)
From: Richard Dury (ERASMUS at UNIBG.IT)
Subject: Old Irish Expert required for quick query
 
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Date: Tue, 14 Mar 1995 17:16:21 -0400 (EDT)
From: robert boivin (r26670 at er.uqam.ca)
Subject: Spontaneous Nasalisation
 
3)
Date:        Tue, 14 Mar 95 16:53:25 EST
From: auger (CXJU at MUSICA.MCGILL.CA)
Subject: Canadian English
 
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Date: Tue, 14 Mar 1995 15:22:19 -0500 (EST)
From: Richard Dury (ERASMUS at UNIBG.IT)
Subject: Old Irish Expert required for quick query
 
I believe Old Irish had word-accent on the first-syllable.
1) was there an alliterative-verse tradition?
2) any evidence that allit. phrases might have been a feature of ordinary
or of any kinds of hight-register speech?
Thanks,
Richard Dury
 
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Date: Tue, 14 Mar 1995 17:16:21 -0400 (EDT)
From: robert boivin (r26670 at er.uqam.ca)
Subject: Spontaneous Nasalisation
 
        I am presently working on constituing a bank of data on
spontaneous vowel nasalisation. I need cases where vowels have been
nasalised in a nasal-free context (no nasal consonant in the immediate
surroundings).
        I would be grateful if you could help me by sending any
information on the subject.
 
        Thank you,
                        Robert Boivin
                        r26670 at er.uqam.ca
 
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Date:        Tue, 14 Mar 95 16:53:25 EST
From: auger (CXJU at MUSICA.MCGILL.CA)
Subject: Canadian English
 
Hello,
     I would like to give my students at McGill an assignment
concerning geographical (and social) variation in Canadian English.
To do so, I should therefore build a short questionaire that will
allow them to elicit words and pronuncations which are likely to
vary depending on the social characteristics of their consultants.
I would very much appreciate if my fellow linguists could provide
me with good test items for that questionaire.
     Thanks in advance.
--Julie Auger
 
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