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The Navajo Sound System: (55 Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory)

The Navajo Sound System: (55 Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory)


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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 have to be included in order to obtain a complete picture of natural human language, especially since the American Indian languages show significantly different typological features. The Navajo Sound System: provides a baseline description of the phonetics of the Navajo language, as it is spoken on the Navajo reservation today; is based on an instrumental analysis of recordings collected from native speakers; is important to classroom education (language instruction) and clinical (speech pathology and audiology) settings; helps broaden our knowledge of sound systems beyond the range of English and more well studied languages; is a complement to the seminal Young and Morgan grammars and dictionaries of Navajo language. "The Navajo Sound System" is for researchers, students, fieldworkers and educators working in the fields of general and theoretical linguistics, psycholinguistics, (laboratory) phonetics and phonology, morphology, Native American Indian studies (Athabaskan and Navajo studies) and language revitalization programmes.

Table of Contents:
1 Introduction.- 1.0 The Navajo Sound System.- 1.1 The Navajo Inventory.- 1.2 Vowels.- 1.3 Phonotactics and Phonemes.- 1.4 The Young and Morgan Grammars.- 1.5 The Conventions Used in the Book.- 1.6 Methods and Data Sets.- 1.7 Outline of the Book.- 2 Morphology.- 2.0 Introduction.- 2.1 Athabaskan Word Structure.- 2.2 The Position Class Template.- 2.3 The Athabaskan Verb.- 2.4 The Disjunct Domain.- 2.5 The Conjunct or Auxiliary Domain.- 2.6 The Verb Domain.- 2.7 Athabaskan Terminology.- 2.8 Summary.- 3 Phonology.- 3.0 Introduction.- 3.1 Phonotactics.- 3.2 Syllable Structure.- 3.3 Consonant Harmony.- 3.4 Fricative and Glide Reflexes.- 3.5 Conjunct Alternations.- 3.6 Boundary Effects.- 3.7 Metathesis of J.- 3.8 Conclusion.- 4 Duration and Timing.- 4.0 Introduction.- 4.1 Domain Durations.- 4.2 Duration Patterns in the Stems.- 4.3 Conjunct and Disjunct Durations.- 4.4 Vowel Length by Domain.- 4.5 Stress in the Verb.- 4.6 Overview of Duration Factors and the Navajo Verb.- 5 Spectral Analyses.- 5.0 Introduction.- 5.1 Navajo Vowels.- 5.2 The Fricative Contrasts.- 5.3 The Back Fricative.- 5.4 Summary of Fricatives.- 6 How to use Young and Morgan’s The Navajo Language.- 6.0 Introduction.- 6.1 The Young and Morgan Grammars.- 6.2 The Grammar.- 6.3 The Appendixes.- 6.4 The Dictionary.- 6.5 Summary.- 7 Conclusion.- 7.0 The Navajo Sound System.- Appendix A: Navajo Wordlists.- Wordlist 1: Phonemic Contrasts.- Wordlist 2. Tone Contrasts.- Wordlist 3 Pre-stem Complex.- Index of Subjects.

Review :
From the review by Daniel L. Everett, Illinois State University, published in Language 83 (2007): "This book was a pleasure to read. It is laid out well, the spectrograms are clear, and the writing is clear and well-organized. I strongly recommend NSS [The Navajo Sound System] to all Americanists as an example of the kind of detail and care that - in an ideal world - should be standard in all efforts to document and describe Native American Languages."


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  • ISBN-13: 9781402013522
  • Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers
  • Publisher Imprint: Kluwer Academic Publishers
  • Height: 240 mm
  • No of Pages: 212
  • Returnable: N
  • Width: 160 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1402013523
  • Publisher Date: 31 May 2003
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Series Title: 55 Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory


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