happy news

[REGINA PUSTET]

Congrats, Armik!

It's clear that I need a copy of your dissertation -- what do I have to do to get it? Will there be an online version also?

Very best,
Regina



--- On Wed, 12/1/10, ROOD DAVID S <David.Rood at Colorado.EDU> wrote:

From: ROOD DAVID S <David.Rood at Colorado.EDU>
Subject: happy news
To: siouan at lists.Colorado.EDU
Cc: "Armik Mirzayan" <mirzayan at me.com>
Date: Wednesday, December 1, 2010, 6:11 AM


I am pleased to announce to everyone on this list that Armik Mirzayan just finished his dissertation on Lakota intonation and prosody.  It's been a long time in the works, but I am very proud of what he has done.  To me the most interesting finding is one that clarifies a long-standing mystery for me.  You may know that the question enclitic in Lakota is sentence-final /he/, and that the e-ablaut form of the continuous (is verb-ing) enclitic is also /he/, though that one is underlying /haN/. Speakers always seem to know whether a given sentence is a continuative declarative or a question, even though the enclitics are identical.  It turns out that questions have a different intonation pattern at the beginning of the sentence -- a question starts higher and often realizes the highest pitch slightly after the first stressed syllable.  I guess I never thought to listen to the beginning of utterance for the clue.
    Of course there's a lot more, much of which is of interest to phoneticians and intonation specialists rather than just to Siouanists.
    The work should be available from UMI on whatever schedule they manage.  Armik has lost his connection with this list due to some CU email address decision, but I've included his current email in this message if you want to write to him.
    Best wishes,
    David


David S. Rood
Dept. of Linguistics
Univ. of Colorado
295 UCB
Boulder, CO 80309-0295
USA
rood at colorado.edu



      
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