10.403, Qs: Vary in NW, Deictic Shift, ID Lang, ASL & Brain

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LINGUIST List:  Vol-10-403. Tue Mar 16 1999. ISSN: 1068-4875.

Subject: 10.403, Qs: Vary in NW, Deictic Shift, ID Lang, ASL & Brain

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Date:  15 Mar 99 10:39:56 PST
From:  Laurie.Zaring at directory.Reed.EDU (Laurie Zaring)
Subject:  Linguistic variation in the NW

2)
Date:  Tue, 16 Mar 1999 07:06:08 -0500
From:  Fergus <fergus at ccpl.carr.lib.md.us>
Subject:  "Like" as a prompt for deictic shift

3)
Date:  Tue, 16 Mar 1999 13:38:28 -0500
From:  Joseph F Foster <fosterjf at email.uc.edu>
Subject:  Identify Language?

4)
Date:  Tue, 16 Mar 1999 12:48:39 -0700 (MST)
From:  NANCY MAE ANTRIM <nantrim at utep.edu>
Subject:  ASL, Verbal Language and the brain

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

Date:  15 Mar 99 10:39:56 PST
From:  Laurie.Zaring at directory.Reed.EDU (Laurie Zaring)
Subject:  Linguistic variation in the NW

Would anyone be able to suggest a phonological change-in-progress
variable that might be observable in the speech of college
students from the Pacific Northwest, or California?  We are considering
(uw)-fronting, but have not observed much fronting so far.

Thanks,

Laurie Zaring
Laurie.Zaring at reed.edu
Reed College


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

Date:  Tue, 16 Mar 1999 07:06:08 -0500
From:  Fergus <fergus at ccpl.carr.lib.md.us>
Subject:  "Like" as a prompt for deictic shift

Currently I am interested in researching "like" as a prompt for
deictic shift in discourse, particularly when followed by a verbal or
nonverbal recreation - as in, "He was like, 'What-EVER.'" or "His hair
was all, like, 'Boosh!'" or "I was like, 'Damn.'"

I am curious if there is a body of work that has covered this already,
or if there is a current theoretical perspective on this construction.


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

Date:  Tue, 16 Mar 1999 13:38:28 -0500
From:  Joseph F Foster <fosterjf at email.uc.edu>
Subject:  Identify Language?

This plea for help in identifying a putative language is on behalf of
a graduate student in our German Department. The passages quoted below
are from a play by the modern German (Austrian) playwright Marlene
Streeruwitz. The lines are uttered by the character 'Anitra', the
character taken from Henrik Ibsen's Peer Gynt in which Anitra is a
Moroccan Bedouin woman.  We suspect the language of being a Berber
dialect but I have been unable to identify it and we are not
absolutely certain it is a natural language. (The parentheses enclose
line numbers from the play.) If you can identify it or point us in a
good direction, please email directly

                Fraulein Britta Kallin  <kallinb at email.uc.edu>


  Anitra: Tany chelen n'so"v.  Ci chiceelee davt gez aav eez chojor
               chuucheddee zachisan ium. Bi ium chudaldaz ava gez
                chot ruu javsan. (43)

And a bit later in the script the following where Anitra screams at
the character Romeo:

  Anitra: Gachaj! - Jal!  - Jaltan!  Chuccirchijlech! - Chajagadach!
                 -Begs!  -Jrgacin  -  Chulgajc - Odo tachan! (61)


Much obliged for any suggestions.

Joe Foster


 Joseph F Foster, Ph D
 Dept of Anthropology
 U of Cincinnati, OH, USA


-------------------------------- Message 4 -------------------------------

Date:  Tue, 16 Mar 1999 12:48:39 -0700 (MST)
From:  NANCY MAE ANTRIM <nantrim at utep.edu>
Subject:  ASL, Verbal Language and the brain

Recently someone mentioned a study of language areas involved with signing
(ASL) that found the same areas involved with speech and signing. Does
anyone know where I can find this study. As I recall there was no mention
of author(s).

Thank you,
Nancy Mae Antrim

Dept. of Languages and Linguistics
University of Texas at El Paso
El Paso, Texas 79968-0531
Tel: (915) 747-7045
Fax: (915) 747-5292
e-mail: nantrim at mail.utep.edu

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