Hi!
Roger Mills <rfmilly@...> writes:
> 1. A while back there were a couple(?) people asking questions about Moore
> (W.Africa). (Can't find the thread in the Archive, but it has to be
> there...) In the course of cleaning out my long-neglected shed, I found:
Woohoo, t'was me! So there is at least something out there.
> Nikiema, Norbert (Indiana Univ.), 1975: Vowel Length in Moore: Its Phonemic
> Status and its Orthographic Representation. (10 pp., including biblio.
>
> IIRC there was just one person who was quite interested; I'll just mail you
> the paper.... Disinclined to do extensive xeroxing...But let's see.
You mean *mail*? That technique where actual matter is moved instead
of abstract binarised information? :-)
> ==========================================
> 2. Matisoff, James 1973: Tonogenesis in Southeast Asia. 30pp. Duplicated
> copy, apparently published but no citation (but found it on Google). Useful
> though dated biblio. Lots of neat info for tone-language designers, mostly
> general, not a lot of data.
That was one thing I was most interested in: I suspect Moore to have
register tones, but there is no info about it that I found. Anything
about tones is interesting for me! :-)
> My copy is fading, and since there might be wider interest, I'm willing to
> retype and either create a PDF and/or put it up on my website temporarily.
> There are 2 or 3 Vietnamese words and Chinese characters that I won't be
> able to handle (not important-- they're just tone names)
!! Seems like some work!
**Henrik