Volume 17, Winter 1995

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Calgary Working Papers in Linguistics, Volume 17, Winter 1995
(University of Calgary, 1995-01) Bailey, Julie; Kitch, Sandra; Rowsell, Lorna V
The editors of this issue, Sandra Kitch, Julie Bailey and Lorna V. Rowsell, are pleased to present the seventeenth issue of the Calgary Working Papers in Linguistics published by the Department of Linguistics at the University of Calgary. The papers published here represent works in progress and as such should not be considered in any way final or definitive.
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Chilcotin tone: an autosegmental analysis*
(University of Calgary, 1995-01) Rhyasen, Corrie
Chilcotin is an Amerindian language belonging to the Athabaskan family. Athabaskan languages are characterized as prefixing languages with rich morphological agreement. They are also categorized as tone languages, although historically they were not. I propose that by using an autosegmental framework to analyze tone in Chilcotin the stem tone alternations will become predictable. Two basic autosegmental rules: spreading and tone deletion, can account for the stem tone alternations.