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The Navajo sound system : by Joyce McDonough, University of Rochester, Department of Linguistics, Rochester NY, U.S.A.

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 ha...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: McDonough, Joyce (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Science+Business Media, 2003.
Series:Studies in natural language and linguistic theory ; v. 55.
Subjects:
Navajo language > Phonology.
Navajo language > Morphology.
Navajo language > Spectral analysis.
Navajo (taal)
Fonologie.
Morfologie (taalkunde)
Phonologie.
Navajo-Sprache.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of 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.