DPs and Demonstratives

[Rory M Larson]

>  The "comma-like" pause (which probably entails pitch changes as well as
> just a pause) is exactly what I would expect if this is a two-part
> construction.

David,

I was just on the phone with one of our speakers.  I couldn't quite get her
to offer nu' s^e'akHa for 'that man' on her own, but when I suggested it
she enthusiastically said that that sounded even better than the
constructions she had offered.  I got her to say it for me, and also wa?u'
s^e'dhiNkHe.  Her pronunciation was as I seemed to recall.  I believe there
is a slight pause/vowel prolongation/drop in volume and maybe pitch,
between the noun and the following dem-det pair.  I was wondering how it
would sound if the noun were not accented on the last syllable, so I tried
nu'z^iNga ('boy'), mi'z^iNga ('girl'), and s^iN'gaz^iNga ('child').  On
these, she preferred placing the dem-det pair before the noun, as
s^e'dhiNkHe nu'z^iNga, etc.  Again, there seemed to be a slight pause
between dem-det and N.  I don't know that I have ever seen this
construction in the historical literature.

Rory