"Abstract: Preparatory to describing a unique way in which one
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language-- Masset Haida-- treats adjacent syllable nuclei
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in the stem, the vowel and pitch systems and two types of
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lexical syllable boundary are described. The MH treatment
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of adjacent syllatle nuclei is then explained in
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terms of three 'conspiracies' and it is shown that a formal
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description requires a hierarchical syllable-structure
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notation. In the remainder of the paper, MH 'coalescence'
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of adjacent vowels and glides is briefly described
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as further evidence for the analysis of the pitch
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system, and evidence is given supporting the conspiracy
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explanation given earlier."
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| ca.44 pp. |
