12.2077, Qs: Amalgams, Expectations Based on the Voice

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Subject: 12.2077, Qs: Amalgams, Expectations Based on the Voice

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Date:  Mon, 20 Aug 2001 21:30:07 -0700 (PDT)
From:  bender at csli.Stanford.EDU
Subject:  Amalgams

2)
Date:  Mon, 20 Aug 2001 12:19:52 +0100
From:  "feargal murphy" <feargalm at eircom.net>
Subject:  expectations based on the voice

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

Date:  Mon, 20 Aug 2001 21:30:07 -0700 (PDT)
From:  bender at csli.Stanford.EDU
Subject:  Amalgams

Dear linguists,

I am working on an analysis of one of the types of sentences that
Lakoff dubbed "amalgams", illustrated in (1):

(1) Kim invited you'll never guess how many people to God knows
    what kind of a party.

(In outline, the construction in question licenses clauses as NPs
where the clauses contain subordinate sluiced clauses.)

I am looking for references to work on this construction in English
and/or related constructions in other languages.  I am also curious
what other languages have similar phenomena.

I will post a summary to the list.

Many thanks,

Emily M. Bender
Stanford University/YY Technologies


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

Date:  Mon, 20 Aug 2001 12:19:52 +0100
From:  "feargal murphy" <feargalm at eircom.net>
Subject:  expectations based on the voice

Dear linguists,

A student asked me the other day if there was any work done on what
aspects of the human voice cause expectations about appearance in the
hearer (say the iamge you create of a person you hear over the phone
or the qualities of a voice that an advertiser would be interested in
in a voice).

I have no knowledge of this are and was wondering if anyone out there
knew of any work in this area, either from a linguistic or
psychological approach.

Please send any information to

feargal.murphy at ucd.ie

I will post a summary.

Thanks in advance,

Feargal Murphy,
Dept of Linguistics,
UCD, Dublin 4,
Ireland.

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