“HA, NOW ME STOMANY THAT!” A SUMMARY OF PIDGINIZATION AND CREOLIZATION OF NORTH AMERICAN INDIAN LANGUAGES

Linguistics ◽  
1976 ◽  
Vol 14 (173) ◽  
Author(s):  
EMANUEL J. DRECHSEL
Keyword(s):  
American Indian ◽  
North American ◽  
Indian Languages ◽  
North American Indian

North American Indian Languages: Classification and Maps

Language ◽  
1959 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
pp. 385
Author(s):  
C. F. Voegelin ◽  
George L. Trager ◽  
Felicia E. Harben
Keyword(s):  
American Indian ◽  
North American ◽  
Indian Languages ◽  
North American Indian

Map of North American Indian Languages

Language ◽  
1968 ◽  
Vol 44 (4) ◽  
pp. 906
Author(s):  
George L. Trager ◽  
C. F. Voegelin ◽  
F. M. Voegelin
Keyword(s):  
American Indian ◽  
North American ◽  
Indian Languages ◽  
North American Indian

North America

2020 ◽  
pp. 395-407
Author(s):  
Gabriela Caballero ◽  
Matthew K. Gordon
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
American Indian ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
North American ◽  
Pitch Accent ◽  
Critically Endangered ◽  
Indian Languages ◽  
Metrical Structure ◽  
Word Level ◽  
North American Indian

This chapter explores the typologically rich but relatively understudied prosodic systems attested in North American Indian languages, many of which are either critically endangered or no longer spoken. Both word-level patterns (including stress, tone, and pitch accent) and higher-level phenomena (encompassing intonation and prosodic constituency) are considered within the broader contexts of prosodic typology and prosodic drift. Topics include segmental manifestations of metrical structure, phonetic correlates of prominence, the interaction between word-level and phrase-level prosody, morphological effects on stress, and tone–stress interactions. Drawing on a combination of phonetic and phonological data, this chapter synthesizes the relatively small number of rigorous case studies of individual languages with the considerably larger set of more cursory descriptions of North American Indian languages in order to gain an appreciation of this linguistic area’s numerous important contributions to both language description and linguistic theory.

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