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Voice alternations in Lac Simon Algonquin

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 November 2008

Gregory K. Iverson
Gregory K. Iverson
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Department of Linguistics, University of Iowa
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A highly unusual set of voice alternations obtains in the Lac Simon dialect of Northern Algonquin (Kaye, 1979, 1981). Here the distribution of voiced and voiceless obstruents reveals phonemic contrast in morpheme-internal positions (e.g. a:sɨbi: ‘net’, a:nɨpi:č ‘when’), but the initial obstruents only of morphemes which may begin the word are invariably voiceless when they do begin the word, voiced when they do not. The peculiar complementation, Kaye (1979: 276–277) reports, is due to the following historical developments affecting the Proto-Algonquian obstruent inventory.

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Journal of Linguistics , Volume 19 , Issue 1 , March 1983 , pp. 161 - 164
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1983

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