The purpose of this paper is to document and study tone and length in the Northern Athabaskan language Tahltan1. Results of instrumental phonetic analyses are examined in light of the historical development of these categories. The results of these studies lead to some inferences about the historica...
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| Online Access: | http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.487.9363 http://www.swarthmore.edu/SocSci/jaldere1/ttonogen1.pdf |
| Summary: | The purpose of this paper is to document and study tone and length in the Northern Athabaskan language Tahltan1. Results of instrumental phonetic analyses are examined in light of the historical development of these categories. The results of these studies lead to some inferences about the historical development of low-marked tone into present-day |
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