Series shifts and mergers in the obstruent phonology of Tahltan (Northern Athabaskan)

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dc.contributor.authorAlderete, John
dc.contributor.authorBlenkiron, Amber
dc.contributor.authorThompson, Judy (Edōsdi)
dc.date.accessioned2024-12-06T16:29:53Z
dc.date.available2024-12-06T16:29:53Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.description.abstractA 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 systems that relate to independently motivated historical changes. These findings support the long-held view that differences in the obstruent reflexes do not reflect deep phonological differences among Northern Athabaskan languages, but instead represent areal influences and patterns of individual variation in a highly dynamic language network.
dc.description.reviewstatusReviewed
dc.description.scholarlevelFaculty
dc.description.sponsorshipThis research was supported in part by a postdoctoral fellowship from the National Science Foundation (SBE-9904360) and a partnership grant from the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada (895-2012-1029).
dc.identifier.citationAlderete, J., Blenkiron, A., & Edōsdi. (2021). Series shifts and mergers in the obstruent phonology of Tahltan (Northern Athabaskan). Linguistic Discovery, 17(1). https://doi.org/10.1349/ps1.1537-0852.a.515
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1349/ps1.1537-0852.a.515
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1828/20825
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherLinguistic Discovery
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dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
dc.titleSeries shifts and mergers in the obstruent phonology of Tahltan (Northern Athabaskan)
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