Theoretical aspects of Gitskan phonology ...

• Main Author: Brown, Jason Camy
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: University of British Columbia 2008
• Subjects: Canada; British Columbia; Tsimshian*
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.14288/1.0067187; https://doi.library.ubc.ca/10.14288/1.0067187

This thesis deals with the phonology of Gitksan, a Tsimshianic language spoken in northern British Columbia, Canada. The claim of this thesis is that Gitksan exhibits several gradient phonological restrictions on consonantal cooccurrence that hold over the lexicon. There is a gradient restriction on...