14.1024, Qs: Tense-marked Pronouns; Phoneme Awareness/India

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LINGUIST List:  Vol-14-1024. Sun Apr 6 2003. ISSN: 1068-4875.

Subject: 14.1024, Qs: Tense-marked Pronouns; Phoneme Awareness/India

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1)
Date:  Sat, 05 Apr 2003 09:29:42 +0400
From:  "David Palfreyman" <David.Palfreyman at zu.ac.ae>
Subject:  Question - personal pronouns which change with temporal  reference

2)
Date:  Sun, 06 Apr 2003 15:20:20 +0000
From:  Richard Sproat <rws at research.att.com>
Subject:  "Phoneme Awareness" in South Asian languages

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

Date:  Sat, 05 Apr 2003 09:29:42 +0400
From:  "David Palfreyman" <David.Palfreyman at zu.ac.ae>
Subject:  Question - personal pronouns which change with temporal  reference

Dear Linguists,

I recently read an article about self and personhood in various
cultures, which states that "there are languages, such as Iaca (New
Caledonia), which have sets of [personal] pronouns marked for
different tenses, contradicting Western notions of physical continuity
[of the self]".

I can't find any mention on the web of a language called Iaca;
however, his point may well still be true.  Can anyone tell me an
example of a language which shows the grammatical characteristic which
he describes?

Thanks for any leads,
David Palfreyman
Zayed University, Dubai.

:-D


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

Date:  Sun, 06 Apr 2003 15:20:20 +0000
From:  Richard Sproat <rws at research.att.com>
Subject:  "Phoneme Awareness" in South Asian languages

Does anyone know of any work on so-called ''phoneme awareness''
in (L1) learners who are learning to read any language/writing
system of the Indian subcontinent?

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