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Sharon Hargus - Witsuwit'en Grammar - 9780774813822 - V9780774813822
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Witsuwit'en Grammar

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Description for Witsuwit'en Grammar Hardback. Witsuwit'en Grammar presents acoustic studies of several aspects of Witsuwit'en phonetics, including vowel quality, vowel quantity, ejectives, voice quality, and stress. Series: First Nations Language Series. Num Pages: 850 pages, 1 map. BIC Classification: 2JND; CFH; CFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 6452 x 4522. Weight in Grams: 1551.

Witsuwit’en is an endangered First Nations language, spoken in western-central British Columbia. A member of the Athapaskan family of languages, the language had been known to have some intriguing characteristics of consonant-vowel interaction, the details of which have been in dispute among scholars.

Witsuwit’en Grammar presents acoustic studies of several aspects of Witsuwit’en phonetics, including vowel quality, vowel quantity, ejectives, voice quality, and stress. Information about the sound system and word structure of Witsuwit’en is also provided, revealing many unusual features not previously described in this level of detail for an Athapaskan language.

Witsuwit’en has elaborate morphology, even by the standards of ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University of British Columbia Press Canada
Number of pages
850
Condition
New
Series
First Nations Language Series
Number of Pages
850
Place of Publication
Vancouver, Canada
ISBN
9780774813822
SKU
V9780774813822
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About Sharon Hargus
Sharon Hargus is a professor of linguistics at the University of Washington.

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