Series shifts and mergers in the obstruent phonology of Tahltan (Northern Athabaskan)*
A survey was conducted to investigate the development of the Proto-Athabaskan obstruent series, *ts/tš/tšr/k, into present day Tahltan. Results from seven native speakers and quantitative analysis of a larger corpus establish tθ/ts/ts/tš as the standard obstruent system, alongside three alternate sy...
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Language: | English |
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Dartmouth College Library
2021-01-01
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Series: | Linguistic Discovery |
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Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1349/PS1.1537-0852.A.515 |