9.1010, Qs: Bilingualism, Fulani, Syllabification

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LINGUIST List:  Vol-9-1010. Thu Jul 9 1998. ISSN: 1068-4875.

Subject: 9.1010, Qs: Bilingualism, Fulani, Syllabification

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1)
Date:  Tue, 7 Jul 98 13:24:29 -0400
From:  vopazo at choapa.cic.userena.cl (Valeria Opazo)
Subject:  Bilingualism

2)
Date:  Tue, 07 Jul 1998 14:04:01 -0700
From:  Rebecca Murphy <rebecca at ctsv.com>
Subject:  Fulani translator needed

3)
Date:  Wed, 8 Jul 1998 15:44:03 GMT0BST
From:  "Ken Murashima" <K.Murashima at newcastle.ac.uk>
Subject:  Syllabification in Japanese

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

Date:  Tue, 7 Jul 98 13:24:29 -0400
From:  vopazo at choapa.cic.userena.cl (Valeria Opazo)
Subject:  Bilingualism


Dear listers:

I am working on establishing a unifyied definition of the concept
"bilingual", so I need to count with as much basic definitions as possible.
My intention is to build up the concept from current notions. Ill post my
results.

Thank you in advance,

Valeria Opazo
Translation Program
Universidad de La Serena
vopazo at choapa.cic.userena.cl


-------------------------------- Message 2 -------------------------------

Date:  Tue, 07 Jul 1998 14:04:01 -0700
From:  Rebecca Murphy <rebecca at ctsv.com>
Subject:  Fulani translator needed

Hello,

My name is Rebecca Murphy and I work for a translation agency.  I'm
searching for a linguist who speaks the language Fulani (spoken in
Western Africa..Nigeria, Niger, Cameroon, etc.). I need a short piece of
information translated and I'm  quickly running low on time.  If you
have any knowledge of such a person, or a path to follow in order to
find such a person, please reply. The language is also called Fulfulde,
Fula, Fulbhe...the list goes on.  Mainly it seems that the form I want
would be from a former British Colony in Western Africa.

I look forward to hearing from you.

Thank you,
Rebecca Murphy
Corporate Translation Services
Vancouver, WA USA

rebecca at ctsv.com




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

Date:  Wed, 8 Jul 1998 15:44:03 GMT0BST
From:  "Ken Murashima" <K.Murashima at newcastle.ac.uk>
Subject:  Syllabification in Japanese

Dear members

I am writing an MA dissertation on accentual variation in Japanese.
It is well-known that Japanese has dual syllable structure through
the concept of syllable and mora.  So KEKKON 'wedding' has 4 moras
and 2 syllables.  When the word is syllabified, the first part of
geminate is coda in the first syllable like /keQ.kon/.  Could anyone
tell me why the geminate is parted like this.

Ken Murashima (K.Murashima at ncl.ac.uk)
Department of Speech
University of Newcastle upon Tyne

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