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I’m sure that many other working phonologists out there have had the same experience I’ve had: you’re searching the web for some paper or reference — or maybe just surfing — when you stumble upon somebody’s course material on the web. An hour later, you’re bookmarking or downloading like mad, or you’re reading and thinking how you might incorporate this or that in your next course on a similar topic, or whatever.
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As many of you know, Adam Albright and I enjoy collecting aggressive reduplications. (Short version: I’ve argued that if a word has partial internal similarity, there’s a drive to treat it as reduplicated. One consequence of such treatment is enhancement of that similarity, as in orangutan > orangutang.)

Bryan came across a fictional example the other day in Boondocks
that could be called “exuberant reduplication”:
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The server on which phonoloblog resides will be down tomorrow (Thursday, May 12) beginning at 9:30am PDT, possibly until as late as 2:00pm. It’s all for a good cause; our Red Hat Linux license expires soon, and we’re switching to Debian GNU/Linux. Keep your fingers crossed for a smooth transition.

Back in August, I bemoaned the lack of a good phonology textbook, one that would be the contemporary equal of Generative Phonology: Description and Theory (Kenstowicz & Kisseberth 1979). I had just browsed through John T. Jensen’s recent Principles of Generative Phonology: An introduction and had been somewhat disappointed by it; maybe I’ll have better luck with David Odden’s just-published Introducing Phonology (part of the new Cambridge Introductions to Language and Linguistics series), of which I recently received an examination copy.
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Claire Bowern has posted a summary of responses to her LinguistList query about international Human Subjects approval procedures (which I originally announced here).

There’s a review on LinguistList of Hayes, Kirchner, Steriade (eds.) Phonetically-Based Phonology (announced on phonoloblog back in November). The text of the review is copied below.

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