catawba phonems /r/, /d/, and /n/

[BARudes at aol.com]

Ogalala2

I have a draft of a rather length paper on Catawba phonology, based largely
on conversations with Frank Siebert, Jr., before his death and his field
notes.  To make a long story short, /r/ and /n/ are underlying phonemes for
Catawba.  /d/ is, in most cases, a derived phoneme.  It comes from a change
of /r/ to /d/ in word-initial position, the denasalization of /n/ to /d/
before oral vowels, and the voicing of /t/ to /d/ before a voiced consonant.
Some cases of word-initial /n/ derive from /r/ through nasalization before a
nasal vowel or an oral vowel followed by a nasal consonant.  However, the
majority of cases of /n/ cannot be so derived.  If you email me your
snail-mail address, I will send you a copy of the paper.  (I cannot send it
by email or as an attachment because I use a lot of special characters.)

Blair A. Rudes