Author: Edward Sapir
Publisher: Berkeley : University of California Press
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Category : Navajo language
Languages : en
Pages : 432

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Author: Edward Sapir
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780598201300
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 134

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Category : Chumash language
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Author: Edward Sapir
Publisher: Millefleurs
ISBN: 9780893707576
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 124

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Author: J.M. McDonough
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 940100207X
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 222

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The Navajo language is spoken by the Navajo people who live in the Navajo Nation, located in Arizona and New Mexico in the southwestern United States. The Navajo language belongs to the Southern, or Apachean, branch of the Athabaskan language family. Athabaskan languages are closely related by their shared morphological structure; these languages have a productive and extensive inflectional morphology. The Northern Athabaskan languages are primarily spoken by people indigenous to the sub-artic stretches of North America. Related Apachean languages are the Athabaskan languages of the Southwest: Chiricahua, Jicarilla, White Mountain and Mescalero Apache. While many other languages, like English, have benefited from decades of research on their sound and speech systems, instrumental analyses of indigenous languages are relatively rare. There is a great deal ofwork to do before a chapter on the acoustics of Navajo comparable to the standard acoustic description of English can be produced. The kind of detailed phonetic description required, for instance, to synthesize natural sounding speech, or to provide a background for clinical studies in a language is well beyond the scope of a single study, but it is necessary to begin this greater work with a fundamental description of the sounds and supra-segmental structure of the language. Inkeeping with this, the goal of this project is to provide a baseline description of the phonetic structure of Navajo, as it is spoken on the Navajo reservation today, to provide a foundation for further work on the language.

Author: Mary Valentine Kroul
Publisher:
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Category : Athapascan languages
Languages : en
Pages : 514

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Author: Edward Sapir
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 123

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Author: Robert W. Young
Publisher: UNM Press
ISBN: 9780826317056
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 518

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Many leading figures in the field of Athabaskan languages contributed to this volume, and their range of topics matches Robert Young's interests. Four papers deal with northern Athabaskan languages, which Young studied in the 1930s. The remaining essays focus on aspects of Navajo language and culture; Young has specialized in this area for over fifty years in collaboration with his mentor, William Morgan, Sr. Several essays present detailed analysis of verb and sentence structure in Navajo, two are studies of Navajo literacy, another examines Navajo philosophy, and one offers the first study of how children learn the complexities of the Navajo verb. Anyone interested in Navajo studies or Athabaskan languages will find these essays invaluable.

Author: Peter Hugoe Matthews
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521422567
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 268

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Originally published in 1974, this updated and substantially revised edition includes chapters on inflectional and lexical morphology, derivational processes and productivity, compounds, paradigms, and much new material on markedness and other aspects of iconicity.

Author: J. C. Anceaux
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 9401759340
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 257

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