"WOUND"

[Rankin, Robert L]

Yep, the relationship between accent, pitch, laryngeal and segmental features is a wide-open area in Siouan phonology.  I did a paper for one of the Mid America MALC volumes several years back in which I related V?V sequences (where the Vs are identical) to phonemic falling pitch, with examples from Ponca, Quapaw, Biloxi and a few from Hidatsa.  The Ponca cases provided very nice recorded examples in which the falling pitch "bottomed out" in the middle of a long or geminate vowel resulting in either [creaky voice] or [?] generated between the two halves of the VV sequence.  This often resulted in a "broken vowel", as SE Asianists like to call them.  So an earlier falling pitch (high pitch on the 1st mora) might be something to look at in phonetic [V?V] sequences.
 
Bob

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In a message dated 5/7/2006 3:47:23 PM Mountain Standard Time, rankin at ku.edu writes:

	That's interesting.  So the Crow rule(s) should actually be:
	
	*?V  >  *V?  >  VV'  with the usual pitch-raising phonetic characteristics of [?] showing up in place of the [?] itself.  Makes perfect sense to me.

I have found about a dozen stems where the Hidatsa has V'?V, and the Crow has VV', e.g., Hi kure?e Cr kulee' 'keep'.  There are others, however, where Crow preserves the accentual pattern of the Hidatsa while losing the glottal: Hi ate'?e Cr asi'i 'appear', so the data is mixed.  In general, accentual patterns in Crow and Hidatsa cognates are often unpredictible.  We have a lot to learn in this area.
 
Randy