Slavey Expressive Terms: Synchronic Evidence for Diachronic Change
Pepper, Mary
Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics · 1985
doi:10.17161/kwpl.1808.504 (opens in a new tab)
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Abstract
Slavey, an Athapaskan language, has a rich expressive vocabulary which exhibits many of the traits discussed in Mithun (1982), but which violates the syllable structure constraints of the language. These syllable structure constraint violations are evidence for the resistance to sound change found by Mithun in this subset of the lexicon.
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