Lakota phonetics

[ROOD DAVID S]

I wouldn't say "moved rightward" but "kept it where it is in the 
unprefixed form" since for us, at least, the prefix is a consonant and not 
a syllable.  This difference between Dakotan and Dhegiha is obviously the 
reason all of this discussion has been so confused.  In Lakota, bl clearly 
does NOT function like an underlying syllable for stress assignment 
purposes, as Willem and I asserted at the beginning.



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

On Fri, 13 Sep 2013, Rankin, Robert L. wrote:

>> Bob, I don't think you should discount first person inflected forms, since
> the accent always moves forward as we add prefixes. If "bluhA" were three
> syllables, we'd have to stress it blUha.
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> That's true, and I'd have expected Dakotan blúha, núha, yuhá.  I take it that doesn't happen, and Dakota has moved accent rightward an extra syllable?
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> Kansa keeps it exactly where it is on all the BL lexemes, so yüzé ‘to get, obtain’ is conjugated 1sg blǘze, 2sg hnǘze, 3sg yüzáabe, 1pl ąyǘzaabe.  I assume other Dhegiha dialects keep accent the same.
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