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Vol. 63, no. 3 (Fall 2021)

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Abstracts

Uto-Aztecan and Plateau Penutian Lexical Resemblances Revisited

Jason D. Haugen
Oberlin College

Nina Lorence-Ganong
Oberlin College

Abstract. This article revisits Noel Rude’s proposal that the Uto-Aztecan and Plateau Penutian language families derive from a common ancestor. Drawing on extensive recent Uto-Aztecan lexical compilations by Brian D. Stubbs and Kenneth C. Hill, we argue that most of Rude’s proposed lexical correspondence sets are spurious, failing to correspond phonologically or semantically or having other serious problems. However, a number of his sets remain of interest to linguists and anthropologists as evidence of likely prehistoric or early historic contact and borrowing between Plateau Penutian and Uto-Aztecan languages, especially among the northernmost languages of the latter family.

Effects of Uvular Consonants on Vowel Quality in Lushootseed

Ted Kye
University of Washington, Seattle

Abstract. Instrumental phonetic study of Salish languages (Pacific North­west) has primarily been conducted in the Interior branch of the family. Here, the acoustic properties of vowels in Lushootseed, a language of the Coast Salish branch, are examined, with particular attention to the effects of uvular consonants. Generally in line with what has been found for other languages, Lushootseed vowels adjacent to uvular consonants, including open central a, show an increase in the first formant and a decrease in the second formant (corresponding to lowering and backing, respectively, in articulatory terms).

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