Grubb, David McClintock2024-08-132024-08-1319691969https://hdl.handle.net/1828/17983This 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.70 pagesAvailable to the World Wide WebThesis