Aspects of current phonological change in Snowdrift Chipewyan ...

Dramatic sound shifts are presently occurring in Snowdrift, North West Territories Chipewyan which may provide some clues to the nature of normal phonological change in language. This paper deals with the complete shift of /t/ to /k/, the loss (or voicing) of /ɬ/, the loss of morphemes which contain...

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Main Author: Jehn, Richard Douglas
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:unknown
Published: University of Calgary 1980
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Online Access:https://dx.doi.org/10.11575/prism/29013
https://prism.ucalgary.ca/handle/1880/51288
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spelling ftdatacite:10.11575/prism/29013 2023-08-27T04:09:00+02:00 Aspects of current phonological change in Snowdrift Chipewyan ... Jehn, Richard Douglas 1980 https://dx.doi.org/10.11575/prism/29013 https://prism.ucalgary.ca/handle/1880/51288 unknown University of Calgary Linguistics FOS Languages and literature Phonology Na-Dene languages Chipewyan language CreativeWork article 1980 ftdatacite https://doi.org/10.11575/prism/29013 2023-08-07T14:24:23Z Dramatic sound shifts are presently occurring in Snowdrift, North West Territories Chipewyan which may provide some clues to the nature of normal phonological change in language. This paper deals with the complete shift of /t/ to /k/, the loss (or voicing) of /ɬ/, the loss of morphemes which contain /ɣ/, and the reanalysis of nasalized vowels into vowel plus nasal consonant, all of which are illustrations of the type of sound change that the linguist in the field rarely expects to witness. ... Article in Journal/Newspaper Chipewyan DataCite Metadata Store (German National Library of Science and Technology)
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topic Linguistics
FOS Languages and literature
Phonology
Na-Dene languages
Chipewyan language
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FOS Languages and literature
Phonology
Na-Dene languages
Chipewyan language
Jehn, Richard Douglas
Aspects of current phonological change in Snowdrift Chipewyan ...
topic_facet Linguistics
FOS Languages and literature
Phonology
Na-Dene languages
Chipewyan language
description Dramatic sound shifts are presently occurring in Snowdrift, North West Territories Chipewyan which may provide some clues to the nature of normal phonological change in language. This paper deals with the complete shift of /t/ to /k/, the loss (or voicing) of /ɬ/, the loss of morphemes which contain /ɣ/, and the reanalysis of nasalized vowels into vowel plus nasal consonant, all of which are illustrations of the type of sound change that the linguist in the field rarely expects to witness. ...
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author Jehn, Richard Douglas
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title Aspects of current phonological change in Snowdrift Chipewyan ...
title_short Aspects of current phonological change in Snowdrift Chipewyan ...
title_full Aspects of current phonological change in Snowdrift Chipewyan ...
title_fullStr Aspects of current phonological change in Snowdrift Chipewyan ...
title_full_unstemmed Aspects of current phonological change in Snowdrift Chipewyan ...
title_sort aspects of current phonological change in snowdrift chipewyan ...
publisher University of Calgary
publishDate 1980
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