A Kwakiutl phonology
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1969
Authors
Grubb, David McClintock
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Abstract
This thesis is based on materials obtained from native speakers of Kwakiutl - a member of the Wakashan family - in Alert Bay, Campbell River, and Victoria, between May 1968 and March 1969.
The main text includes an inventory of taxonomic phonemes, followed by a section in which the contrasts are attested. Two further sections are devoted to a discussion of articulation and a treatment of the distribution of phonemes.
Appended to the main part of the thesis is a lexicon of 185 items based on the Thompson word list.