Author | McDonough, Joyce. author |
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Title | The Navajo Sound System [electronic resource] / by Joyce McDonough |
Imprint | Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2003 |
Connect to | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0207-3 |
Descript | XIII, 212 p. online resource |
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 Morganโs 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