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Title

The Navajo sound system / by Joyce McDonough.

Author

McDonough, Joyce.

Publication

Dordrecht ; Boston : Kluwer Academic Publishers, ©2003.

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Details

Description

xiii, 212 pages : illustrations; 25 cm

Summary

• "This book is a phonetic fieldwork study of the sound system of an important Native American language. It is one of the few monograph-length phonetic investigations of an indigenous North American language. As the field of typological studies grows, it is evident that the languages of the Americas have to be included in order to obtain a complete picture of natural human language, especially since the American Indian languages show significantly different typological features."
• "The Navajo Sound System is for researchers, students, fieldworkers and educators working in the fields of general and theoretical linguistics, psycholinguistics, (laboratory) phonetics and phonology, morphology, Native American Indian studies (Athabaskan and Navajo studies) and language revitalization programs."--Jacket.

Series Statement

Studies in natural language and linguistic theory ; v. 55

Uniform Title

Studies in natural language and linguistic theory ; v. 55.

Subjects

• Navajo-Sprache
• Morfologie (taalkunde)
• Fonologie
• Navajo (taal)
• Phonologie
• Navajo language > Phonology
• Navajo language > Spectral analysis
• Navajo language > Morphology

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-205) and index.

Contents

The Navajo Inventory -- Vowels -- Phonotactics and Phonemes -- The Young and Morgan Grammars -- Morphology -- Athabaskan Word Structure -- The Position Class Template -- The Athabaskan Verb -- The Bipartite Model -- The Disjunct Domain -- The Conjunct or Auxiliary Domain -- Base and Extended Paradigms as the Head of Aux -- Other Conjunct Morphemes -- The Verb Domain -- The Verb Stem -- The 'Classifiers' -- Athabaskan Terminology -- Null Morphemes -- The 'Peg' Elements and the Aux Base -- The 'Verb Theme' and 'Verb Base' -- Phonology -- Phonotactics -- Syllable Structure -- Epenthesis -- Stem Alternations -- Root Constraints -- Consonant Harmony -- Harmony in the Aux Domain -- Fricative and Glide Reflexes -- Conjunct Alternations -- The S-perfective -- The Qualifier Alternations -- Boundary Effects -- The D-effect and Classifier Alternations -- Morphophonemic D/Aux Boundary Alternations -- Metathesis of J- -- Duration and Timing -- Domain Durations -- Duration Patterns in the Stems -- Stem Consonant Durations -- Duration Measurements in Nouns -- The Stem Stops -- The Augmentative -- Verb Stem -- Conjunct and Disjunct Durations -- The Conjunct Onset Consonants -- Conjunct Nasals -- Conjunct Glides -- Codas in the Stem and Conjunct Domains -- Disjunct Domain Durations -- Vowel Length by Domain -- The Duration of Vowels in Navajo -- Stress in the Verb -- Overview of Duration Factors and the Navajo Verb -- Spectral Analyses -- Navajo Vowels -- The Navajo Vowel Space -- Data and Methods -- Vowel Space in Stems.

ISBN

• 1402013515
• 9781402013515
• 1402013523
• 9781402013522

LCCN

2003051322

OCLC

• ocm52133267
• 52133267
• SCSB-1299047

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library