: Myths of the Owens Valley Paiute . Julian H. Steward. ; Nez Perce Texts . Archie Phinney.

Nez Perce embedded indexicals

When Nez Perce speakers were presented with a cartoon depicting the interactions between Sue, the classmate, and the teacher, they judged both (1) and (2) to be appropriate utterances by the classmate. In (1), a 3rd person pronoun in the embedded clause co-refers with the matrix subject, Sue. In (2), a 1st person pronoun replaces it, with the same reference. In English, this second pattern is a...

Nez Perce embedded indexicals

When Nez Perce speakers were presented with a cartoon depicting the interactions between Sue, the classmate, and the teacher, they judged both (1) and (2) to be appropriate utterances by the classmate. In (1), a 3rd person pronoun in the embedded clause co-refers with the matrix subject, Sue. In (2), a 1st person pronoun replaces it, with the same reference. In English, this second pattern is a...

Ejectives in Nez Perce

This paper discusses ejectives in Nez Perce, a Penutian language spoken in western Idaho, northeastern Oregon and eastern Washington. Using words collected in carrier phrases, VOT, burst amplitude, f0, intensity, and jitter are analyzed to provide a description of ejectives in Nez Perce. Kingston (1985, 2005) proposed a stiff/slack dichotomy for ejectives, however, researchers (Wright et al. 20...

Julian Steward

Contrast and Phonological Activity in Nez Perce Contrast and Phonological Activity in the Nez Perce Vowel System

0. Introduction Features which pattern as inert with respect to phonological processes are often unnecessary in distinguishing segments in an inventory. The relationship between phonological activity and contrastiveness has been modeled in theories of underspecification (e.g. Archangeli 1984, Steriade 1987). However, there is no consensus on how to determine which features are contrastive. The ...