Re: CHAT: Importance of stress

On 27 Jan 00, at 11:40, dirk elzinga wrote:

> Ambisyllabicity has always given me the oogies. Luckily I've
> never had to deal with it in Gosiute. There's a little known
> paper by Mike Hammond in which he makes the claim that
> ambisyllabicity in English is really covert gemination. I think
> this became part of his just-recently-appeared book on English
> phonology (from Oxford University Press). I'll have to check
> tomorrow when I'm back in my office.
>
> BTW Paul, Hammond's book might be a gentler introduction to
> phonology than the Dependency Phonology collection you're
> reading now.
Thanks.

I've been plodding thru that particular volume thanks to my method of
obtaining lingbooks.  Since I'm not learning (nor trying to learn) in a
specific direction, I pop along to my local "Cranfield Bookstore".  They
basically sell remainders and uncollected pre-paid special orders from
their sister shop Waterstones (just down the mall) for the princely sum of
one whole English Pound.  I simply pop in every so often on the off-chance
and nab everything remotely langish that I can see, and consume it at my
leisure.

(Place the above in the Past Perfect for accuracy, as I've moved away
since)

OFF: ObBrag: I've picked up some *very* juicy bargains this way, including
a 175-Pound volume entitled (I forget the meta-title, its a fairly large
set of fairly large books) "Altkleinasiatishes Sprachen" (ISTR) which deals
(in German) with Hittite, Hurrian, Urartian, Luwian, Palaic, Elamite (in
English) and so on and so forth from then-/there-abouts.  (According to
Peter T Daniels, it's the primary authority on Elamite)  Unfortunately, my
German isn't good enough to read the other articles very easily, but I
think a quid for a well-respected grammar (and history) of Elamite is well
worth it...

(memo to self: I really **must** polish up my German, what kind of a
linguist (amateur or not) can I call myself if I can't read one of the
subjects primary languages??? <GGG>)


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