The Phonetic Properties of Voiced Stops Descended from Nasals in Ditidaht∗
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• The sound change spread as a result of areal contact, possibly originating in Lushootseed (Thompson and Thompson 1972:450-1). ∗Thank you very much to Melinda Fricke, Clara Cohen, Keith Johnson, and the members of the Pacific Northwest Languages Working Group for helpful comments on how to improve this work. Thank you also to the Ditidaht Elders for sharing their language and culture with me, and to the Oswalt Grant, the UCB Graduate Division Summer Grant, Deborah Mack, Adam Werle, and Randy Bouchard for facilitating my first season of fieldwork. All errors in this work remain my own.
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