Date:  Mon, 5 Dec 1994 09:23:34 EST

From:  Wayne Glowka <wglowka[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]MAIL.GAC.PEACHNET.EDU>

Subject: Re: RE /bijl/



>Mike Montgomery gave an interesting tajk on just this issue some 10 yejurs

>ago at CEA in Ashville. He might could have published the data he presented

>in the talk, but ifn he did, I can't rightly say. Y'all might ask him.

>!



Longer ago than that, James H. Sledd responded to comments made by

Montgomery about Sledd's objectivity in "Breaking, Umlaut, and the Southern

Drawl," Language 42.1 (1966): 18-41. Sledd distributed about a

thirty-page, single-spaced handout, which included spectrographs of his own

pronunciation. I no longer have a copy of that handout (that I can find).

At the end of the session, which Montgomery chaired, Mufwene stood up and

said some diplomatic things to fill the embarrassing void. It was another

one of those ADS-last-morning-on-the last-day-SAMLA sessions in which all

the hangovers seemed to generate cotton in the artificial hotel air.









Wayne Glowka

Professor of English

Director of Research and Graduate Student Services

Georgia College

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