2006 SCLC: Announcement and Call for Papers

[David Costa]

I'm no Cree expert, but I'm about 99% sure the Qu'Appelle Reserve is Plains
Cree.

I don't know about /k/ having an allophone of [q].

Dave


> 
>> 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.
>> 
> Dear Heike:
> 
> According to the biography below, she was born on the Qu'Appelle Cree reserve
> in Saskatchewan.
> 
> http://www.creative-native.com/biograp.htm
> 
> Our Algonquianist friends can surely tell us what the Cree dialect must be on
> that reserve.
> 
> My contact with Cree is as limited as one can imagine: I heard Buffy count on
> the mike before a performance on TV! Her pronunciation of the [k] in peyak
> struck me.  I have done a fair amount of fieldwork on Lakota, but can only
> remember this one Oglala friend with the [k] in kaka that struck me. So it
> could all be coincidence and idiosyncratic pronunciations.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Willem
> 
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