8.112, Qs: Diphthong, Teaching material, RUKI rule

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Subject: 8.112, Qs: Diphthong, Teaching material, RUKI rule

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1)
Date:  Sun, 19 Jan 1997 17:02:12 +0100 (MET)
From:  KAMANY <kamany at club-internet.fr>
Subject:  Branching Onsets vs. Heavy Diphthongs

2)
Date:  Tue, 21 Jan 1997 16:19:45 -0700 (MST)
From:  LIJENI at CCIT.ARIZONA.EDU
Subject:  teaching material

3)
Date:  Mon, 27 Jan 1997 11:31:03 -0330 (NST)
From:  Linda Longerich <lindal at morgan.ucs.mun.ca>
Subject:  RUKI rule

-------------------------------- Message 1 -------------------------------

Date:  Sun, 19 Jan 1997 17:02:12 +0100 (MET)
From:  KAMANY <kamany at club-internet.fr>
Subject:  Branching Onsets vs. Heavy Diphthongs

Dear collegues;
The framework we are currently developping yields the following
results: a) string-final consonants are potential onset/coda when
followed by a vowel/consonant respectively after morpheme
concatenation; b) only glides followed by a consonant qualify as
offglide (heavy diphthong); c) branching onsets and heavy diphthongs
appear to be formally identical since, among other things, the former
requires the obligatory presence of a following vowel.  1) Are heavy
diphthongs or/and branching onsets found in languages which do not
present string-final consonants? 2) Are there languages which present
branching onsets while lacking heavy diphthongs, and vice versa?
Thank you very much for your cooperation.

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Date:  Tue, 21 Jan 1997 16:19:45 -0700 (MST)
From:  LIJENI at CCIT.ARIZONA.EDU
Subject:  teaching material

Dear Netter,

I am going to teach Introduction to Linguistics next semester.  I am
looking for audio and vedio material on topics such as animal
communication, phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, language
acquisition, sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, language change,
pragmatics, etc.  If you know what I can use, where and how to find
them and buy them, please give me an e-mail (lijeni at ccit.arizona.edu).
Thank you very much.



Sincerely,
Jen-i Li


-------------------------------- Message 3 -------------------------------

Date:  Mon, 27 Jan 1997 11:31:03 -0330 (NST)
From:  Linda Longerich <lindal at morgan.ucs.mun.ca>
Subject:  RUKI rule


I am investigating the conditioning environment which triggered the
shift of PIE alveolar /s/ to palatal, retroflex or velar /s/ in
Indo-Iranian and Balto-Slavic.  That is - following either an /r/,
/u/, /k/ or /i/.
	
My hypothesis is that the conditioning may be acoustic (originally
suggested by Vennemann, Linguistics 130 (1974),91-97).  If this
hypothesis is correct, there should be at least a few similar examples
in other languages.

I am looking for any examples of similar diachronic shifts or
synchronic variants in a NON-Indoeuropean Language.
	
Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks
	
Linda Longerich	lindal at morgan.ucs.mun.ca
Linguistics Department
Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada

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