St’át'imcets intonation contours: a preliminary study

2016 ◽  
Vol 61 (2) ◽  
pp. 119-155
Author(s):  
Marion Caldecott
Keyword(s):  
Information Structure ◽  
Northwest Coast ◽  
Growing Body ◽  
Intonational Meaning ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Preliminary Study ◽  
Interior Salish

AbstractAcoustic research on the prosody and intonation of Northwest Coast languages has until recently been under-researched. This paper joins the growing body of research on the subject and reports on the results of the first study of intonation in St’át'imcets (Lillooet Salish; Northern Interior Salish). It tests the generalization proposed by Davis (2007) that information structure is not correlated with prosody in Salish languages by comparing the intonation contours of declaratives and yes/no questions. Specifically, I ask two questions: is nuclear accent rightmost? And are yes/no questions associated with higher pitch, as predicted by the Universality of Intonational Meaning? Results are comparable to those reported for other Salish languages, namely Koch (2008, 2011) on Nɬeʔkepmxcín, Jacobs (2007) on Skwxwú7mesh and Benner (2004, 2006) and Leonard (2011) on SENĆOŦEN. Nuclear accent is associated with the rightmost stressed vowel, regardless of focus, and while no speaker signals yes/no questions with a final rise, each has higher pitch within typologically common parameters.

Uvular-Pharyngeal Resonants in Interior Salish

1967 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
pp. 228-234 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Dale Kinkade
Keyword(s):  
Interior Salish

Proto-Eastern Interior Salish Vowels

1972 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
pp. 26-48
Author(s):  
M. Dale Kinkade ◽  
Clarence Sloat
Keyword(s):  
Interior Salish

scholarly journals Interior Salish Reduplication in a Diachronic Perspective

1996 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 11
Author(s):  
Gregory D. S. Anderson
Keyword(s):  
Native American ◽  
Annual Meeting ◽  
Special Session ◽  
Native American Languages ◽  
Interior Salish ◽  
Historical Issues

Proceedings of the Twenty-Second Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society: Special Session on Historical Issues in Native American Languages (1996)

The cottonwood mushroom (Tricholoma populinum): a food resource of the Interior Salish Indian peoples of British Columbia

1987 ◽  
Vol 65 (5) ◽  
pp. 921-927 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nancy J. Turner ◽  
Harriet V. Kuhnlein ◽  
Keith N. Egger
Keyword(s):  
British Columbia ◽  
Food Source ◽  
Food Resource ◽  
Edible Mushroom ◽  
Native People ◽  
Important Food ◽  
Mushroom Species ◽  
Important Food Source ◽  
Interior Salish ◽  
First Time

Tricholoma populinum Lange is identified for the first time as one of the edible mushroom species traditionally eaten by Interior Salish Indian peoples of British Columbia. A description of this species is given, and harvesting and preparation information is provided based on its use by contemporary Native people. Nutrient composition data are also reported. This mushroom continues to be an important food source for some Native people in British Columbia.

Spokane

2000 ◽  
Vol 30 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 97-102 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barry F. Carlson ◽  
John H. Esling
Keyword(s):  
Doctoral Dissertation ◽  
Washington State ◽  
Interior Salish ◽  
Eastern Washington

Spokane and Kalispel (NpoqÉ ånišcn, Qalispé), both located in eastern Washington State, and Montana Salish (Flathead), are nearly identical dialects of an Interior Salish language now spoken by only a handful of elders. Grammatical sketches are available for Spokane (Carlson 1972) and Kalispel (Vogt 1940). There is no modern grammar of Montana Salish; Black (1996) uses both Spokane and Montana Salish material in her doctoral dissertation. Thompson (1973) and Czaykowska-Higgins & Kinkade (1998) provide general Salish research summaries.

scholarly journals Unpacking the Okanagan Person-Marking Conundrum

2002 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 51
Author(s):  
Paul Barthmaier
Keyword(s):  
British Columbia ◽  
Washington State ◽  
Formal Similarity ◽  
Current Form ◽  
Interior Salish ◽  
Varied History ◽  
Person Marking

Okanagan, a Southern Interior Salish language spoken in northern Washington state and southern British Columbia, exhibits a peculiar set of pronominal morphemes that surely are a testament to a diverse and varied history. From the outside, the pronominal markers associated with Okanagan clauses appear to be a disparate group of morphemes. A lack of formal similarity frustrates attempts to characterize them as either nominative-accusative or ergative-absolutive. Morphologically the pronominal forms appear to be the typologically rare tripartite system. Yet, speakers have little trouble using the different markers in their appropriate contexts. In what follows, I will propose an analysis of how the person marking in the language has come to have such an interesting shape. I will offer internal and external motivations that the system responded to as it evolved into its current form.

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