Areal Phonology

[Michael McCafferty]

>>> 
> on the one hand, where the boundary occurs in compounding, mostly, but
>> There are some signs in Mandan of V-?-V linkage, if not V-h-V linkage.
> > > A footnote disposes of an anonymous reviewer's comment that word-initial
> *h* is not written in pre-19th century Shawnee vocabularies though
> English-speaking recorders might have been expected to to have written it.
> Not, I suppose, any French-speaking ones?

It's true, John, that native /h/ generally blew in one French ear and out the 
other, but the sound was recorded occasionally by the historic French. You see 
it from time to time in the early Miami-Illinois dictionaries.