Stoney Phonology

[Constantine Xmelnitski]

--- Ogalala2 at aol.com wrote:
....  My questions are:  Does Stoney not contain
> the gutterals?  Is h the
> proper phoneme to represent all three of the
> phonemes mentioned above?


In Patricia Shaw's (1980) book on phonology and
morphology of Dakotan I found the following (chapter
1):
"..Notably, however, the velar fricatives /x, g^/ of
other dialects occur as the pharyngeals [<h with a dot
below> <mirror ?-sign> ] in Stoney. This seems to be a
fairly recent sound shift for there is still some
variability in the articulation of these segments in
the speech of older and more conservative speakers".

Connie.
>
>     Thanks for your help.
>
>     Ted Grimm
>


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