Nez Perce Vowels and Proto-Sahaptian Vowel Harmony
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2873449 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Bruce Rigsby, Michael Silverstein (0000-0001-5497-3578) |
| Year | 1969 |
| Volume | 45 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 45 |
| Publication date | 1969-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Language (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0097-8507 • E-ISSN: 1535-0665 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/411752 |
| OpenAlex | W2332038500 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 16 |
| References cited | 8 |
Vowel harmony in Sahaptian languages is an automatic assimilation of phonemes of a ‘recessive’ set to those of a ‘dominant’ one in the same sequence. It is describable with phonetic features of phonological segments, as opposed to class markings on whole morphemes. In fact, in the Sahaptin dialects, explaining palatalization of front velars requires setting up a preceding phonetic rule of vowel harmony, and different late rules of vowel merging. Historically, we can view the vowel harmony as a phonetic process arising in the dialects by parallel (but not identical) restructuring from a Proto-Sahaptian system of morphological ablaut
Art · Formant · Harmony (color) · Linguistics · Mid vowel · Vowel · Vowel harmony · Ancient Near East History · Language, Linguistics, Cultural Analysis · Linguistics and language evolution · Philosophy
Contrast and Phonological Activity in the Nez Perce Vowel System
Directionality in Vowel Harmony
Diminutive Consonant Symbolism in Western North America
American Indian Linguistics
On the History of Nominal Case in Sahaptian
Predictable versus Underlying Vocalism in Yakima Sahaptin
On the Origin of the Nez Perce Ergative NP Suffix
The Penutian Hypothesis
Land and language in Cape York Peninsula and the Gulf Country
The Indigenous Languages of the Americas
Getting the word out
Land and language in Cape York Peninsula and the Gulf Country
Vowel harmony in Khalkha Mongolian, Yaka, Finnish and Hungarian
Dominant domains in vowel harmony
Plural exponence in the Nez Perce DP
Cyclicity and Connectivity in Nez Perce Relative Clauses
| Unique citing works | 16 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,29 |
| Citation span | 1971 - 2025 (55) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 8 |