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<p><tt>Thanks, Jimm! I should think that would explain the La Flesche family's tendency toward interdentalization of /s/ and /z/.</tt><br>
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<font size="4" color="#800080">Rory:</font><br>
<font size="4" color="#800080">Mary Gale LaFlesche, mother of Francis LaF, was raised primarily by her Ioway-Otoe mother, ŅiGunaMi, who kept regular contact with both village groups. As such, her first language was IO, and there is no information as to which dialect dominated Mary's or her mother's speech. However, in as much as Mary's grandfather was Ioway Leader ("chief") WajinWasje) and her Otoe grandmother, Thunder Eagle Woman, in turn she was the daughter of an Otoe Leader ("chief") and an Omaha mother. The grandparents lived in the area of Bellevue, NE. Mary's father, Dr. Gale, an Army surgeon played no role in her life.</font><br>
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<font size="4" color="#800080">IO political and social mores of the day would suggest that Mary's and her Mother's speech would tend towards Ioway in dialect. When she was about pre-adolescence or earlier, her step-father, a French (speaking) Fur trader, Peter Sarpy (a not very French sounding name) with the American Fur Company sent Mary to a Saint Louis French school where she learned to speak French. No doubt, Mary had gained some familiarity with Omaha from the activity of the Trading Post. However, when she married Joseph LaFlesche, who was equally bilingual in Omaha and French, Omaha became her dominant language, and the first language of all her children. Neither Mary nor Joseph spoke or understood English.</font><br>
<font size="4" color="#800080">Perhaps the above will provide some insight on possible language influence of Mary on her son Francis's Omaha speech patterns reflected in his written works.</font><br>
<font size="4" color="#800080">Jimm </font><br>
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<b><font size="4">From:</font></b><font size="4"> </font><a href="mailto:rlarson@unlnotes.unl.edu"><u><font size="4" color="#0000FF">Rory M Larson</font></u></a><font size="4"> </font><br>
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<b><font size="4">Sent:</font></b><font size="4"> Wednesday, September 27, 2006 10:09 PM</font><br>
<b><font size="4">Subject:</font></b><font size="4"> Re: Omaha fricative set</font><br>
<p><tt><font size="4">John Koontz wrote:</font></tt><font size="4"><br>
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> I'm pretty sure that something like an extreme laminality or apicality<br>
> explains the LaFlesche use of c-cedilla for s, and failing a convenient<br>
> coresponding voiced symbol he used the same for z, too. He prized his<br>
> pronunciation of s/z and used symbols to insist on it. Dorsey mentions<br>
> that members of the LaFlesche family had what ammounted to a lisp.</font></tt><font size="4"><br>
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Wasn't a mother or grandmother of that family an Otoe?</font></tt><font size="4"><br>
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Rory</font></tt>
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