2006 SCLC: Announcement and Call for Papers

[Heike Bödeker]

Dear Willem,

> Sometimes [k] sounds very postvelar, like IPA [q], in the
> environment of [a].  Compare Cree peyak [peyaq] 'one' (at least as
> pronounced by Buffy Sainte Marie)

Where is she from? Frankly I can't remember that, at least for the 
Plains and Montagnais varieties I came to hear.

But also in the Turkish varieties I mostly hear around here or on TV 
the k/q allophony is not as pronounced as e.g. in Xalxa Mongolian. 
But then, also Turkish vowels even on TV aren't what they should be 
according to textbooks. An acquaintance from Istanbul used to 
complain a lot about that dreadful way of speaking...

> I don't know what other languages do with their [k]s in the
> Northern Plains.

Me neither. At least according to how I remember Blackfoot, Tsuut'ina 
and Nakoda.

All the best,

Heike