A Note on Gitksan Speech-Play

Rigsby, Bruce

doi:10.1086/465113

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“…The phonological inventory of vowels for Eastern Gitksan is given above. The inventory for Western Gitksan is slightly different, as it can be argued that an additional long/short contrast for the mid vowels is historically emerging (Rigsby 1986: 202).…”

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“…There are short mid vowels that occur as allophones of the long vowels in positions preceding a sonorant (Rigsby 1986: 199–203). This results in allophonic short mid vowels in Eastern Gitksan (Rigsby notes a few exceptions with either short mid vowels not preceding a sonorant, and long mid vowels preceding a sonorant).…”

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“…While the fricatives are immune to the prevocalic voicing that affects plosives and affricates, there is a lenition process that affects the voiced uvular plosive [ɢ], optionally rendering it as a voiced uvular fricative [ʁ]; for example, bo g aba g a ‘kiss’ is optionally realized as [ˌ ɢˈ ɢ] ~ [ˌ ʁˈ ʁ]. This optional lenition only affects the uvular plosives (see Rigsby 1967, 1986: 154).…”

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“…The primary reference on the Gitksan language is Bruce Rigsby's Gitksan Grammar (Rigsby 1986). Earlier work on the phonetics and phonology of the language includes Rigsby (1967, 1986), Wickstrom (1974), Hoard (1978), Ingram & Rigsby (1987), Rigsby & Ingram (1990), and more recently Brown (2008a, b, 2010). The Gitksan orthography presented below was first developed by Bruce Rigsby and Lonnie Hindle in their Short Practical Dictionary of the Gitksan Language (Hindle & Rigsby 1973), with orthographic contributions from Powell & Stevens (1977) in their language learning textbooks.…”

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“…This Illustration provides an outline of the more prominent features of the phonetics and phonology of Gitksan. Further details of the language can be found in Rigsby (1986) and Brown (2008a). The data presented here are based on the speech forms of two female Gitksan speakers: Barbara Sennott and the late Doreen Jensen, sisters who grew up speaking Gitksan with their parents at home, regularly spoke Gitksan growing up in the village of Kispiox, and the surviving sister continues to do so with other speakers of the language today.…”

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Journal of the International Phonetic Association

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Gitksan (git) is an Interior Tsimshianic language spoken in northwestern British Columbia, Canada. It is closely related to Nisga'a, and more distantly related to Coast Tsimshian and Southern Tsimshian. The specific dialect of Gitksan presented here is what can be called Eastern Gitksan, spoken in the villages of Kispiox (Ansbayaxw), Glen Vowell (Sigit'ox), and Hazelton (Git-an'maaxs), which contrasts with the Western dialects, spoken in the villages of Kitwanga (Gitwingax), Gitanyow (Git-anyaaw), and Kitseguecla (Gijigyukwhla). The primary phonological differences between the dialects are a lexical shift in vowels and the presence of stop lenition in the Eastern dialects. While there exists a dialect continuum, the primary cultural and political distinction drawn is between Eastern and Western Gitksan. For reference, Gitksan is bordered on the west by Nisga'a, in the south by Coast Tsimshian and Witsuwit'en, in the east by Dakelh and Sekani, and in the north by Tahltan (the latter four of these being Athabaskan languages).

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Section: Vowelsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Vowelsmentioning

confidence: 99%