Re: Laryngeals in Amhanara.
| From: | Dirk Elzinga <dirk.elzinga@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, March 25, 2008, 16:31 |
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In the Goshute dialect of Shoshoni (Uto-Aztecan), falling pitch corresponds
to a medial glottal stop in other dialects. The word for 'ghost' in Goshute
is [tθóàpʰ], while its cognate in Western Shoshoni is [tsoʔapʰ] (both are
disyllabic forms). In practice, there is plenty of pitch movement and creaky
voice in Western Shoshoni as well, but the glottal stop is still present. In
Goshute it's gone completely.
In Third Mesa Hopi (also Uto-Aztecan), a falling tone corresponds to
syllable-final aspiration in First Mesa Hopi. This tone is confined to
syllables containing a long vowel or syllables closed by a sonorant. As I
recall, the current thinking is that in earlier Hopi, such syllables were
closed by a voiceless sonorant or /h/.
Looking in Wikipedia (the fount of all knowledge), I see that Kickapoo, an
Algonkian language, developed low tone on vowels followed by /h/.
So there are a few examples to think about.
On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 9:33 AM, Lars Finsen <lars.finsen@...> wrote:
> Den 25. mar. 2008 kl. 14.49 skreiv Dirk Elzinga:
>
> > You could consider changing them into tones ...
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> Do you have a particular natlang pattern in mind?
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> LEF
>
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Miapimoquitch: Tcf Pt*p+++12,4(c)v(v/c) W* Mf+++h+++t*a2c*g*n4 Sf++++argh
Lc++d++600
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