Work Papers
of the Summer Institute of Linguistics,
University of North Dakota Session
Volume 42 (1998)
Volume editor: Mark E. Karan
URL: http://arts-sciences.und.edu/summer-institute-of-linguistics/work-papers/1998.cfm
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Seri Dictionary: Body Parts, Bodily Processes, Sickness and Medicine
Mary B. Moser and Stephen A. Marlett
(56 pages, 480 Kb)
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A subset of the Seri bilingual dictionary (in preparation) is presented which includes terms referring to body parts, bodily processes, sickness, and medicine. This version includes English glosses in addition to the Spanish glosses, and an English-to-Seri reversal.
Seri Dictionary: Earth, Sea, Sky, Time and Weather
Mary B. Moser and Stephen A. Marlett
(24 pages, 191 Kb)
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A subset of the Seri bilingual dictionary (in preparation) is presented which includes terms referring to the earth, sea, sky and weather. This version includes English glosses in addition to the Spanish glosses, and an English-to-Seri reversal.
Seri Dictionary: Mammals
Mary B. Moser and Stephen A. Marlett
(16 pages, 131 Kb)
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A subset of the Seri bilingual dictionary (in preparation) is presented which includes terms referring to mammals. This version includes English glosses in addition to the Spanish glosses, and an English-to-Seri reversal. In addition, extensive footnotes are included which provide information from Edward Moser's field notes relating to the Seri knowledge of mammals.
Other excerpts from the Seri dictionary have been published in the 1997, 1999 and 2000 Work Papers. The complete dictionary was published in 2005; for a description and information about how to buy it, see http://www.sil.org/mexico/seri/G004-Diccionario-sei.htm.
On the Phonetic Duration of Huariapano Rhymes
Steve Parker
(18 pages, 156 Kb)
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Huariapano, an extinct language of Peru, exhibits an unusual process of coda epenthesis by which the segment [h] is inserted in odd-numbered syllables of the prosodic word. Crucial to an understanding of this phenomenon is the correct interpretation of its metrical function: do these [h]'s represent an augmentation of the strong syllables of trochaic feet, or a partial devoicing of the nuclear vowel in the weak syllables of iambic feet? This article presents the results of an instrumental study which indicates that insofar as their relative duration is concerned, syllable-final [h]'s in Huariapano pattern as fully moraic coda consonants in keeping with the trochaic constraint HeavyFootHead.