Volume 06, Spring 1980

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    Aspects of current phonological change in Snowdrift Chipewyan
    (University of Calgary, 1980-05) Jehn, Richard Douglas
    Dramatic sound shifts are presently occurring in Snowdrift, North West Territories Chipewyan which may provide some clues to the nature of normal phonological change in language. This paper deals with the complete shift of /t/ to /k/, the loss (or voicing) of /ɬ/, the loss of morphemes which contain /ɣ/, and the reanalysis of nasalized vowels into vowel plus nasal consonant, all of which are illustrations of the type of sound change that the linguist in the field rarely expects to witness.
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    Calgary Working Papers in Linguistics, Volume 6, Spring 1980
    (University of Calgary, 1980-05) Doran, Christopher J.; Gibbons, Diana E.; Jehn, Richard Douglas
    This issue is the sixth in the series of working papers published by LOGOS, the Student Linguistics Society at The University of Calgary. The series provides a vehicle for faculty members and students to publish current research. These papers represent research in progress and are not to be considered final statements by the authors. The appearance of these articles in the current issue does not preclude their publication in altered form elsewhere.
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    Particle t'a in Snowdrift Chipewyan
    (University of Calgary, 1980-05) Jehn, Richard Douglas
    Some problem has arisen in accurately characterizing the general nature, the morphosyntactic description, and, in particular, the function of the putative relative clause marking particle t'a in Chipewyan. This paper attempts to provide a preliminary account of t'a. expanding on work which has preceded.
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    Word shortening in Snowdrift Chipewyan
    (University of Calgary, 1980-05) Henry, Dave
    In my fieldwork on Chipewyan in Snowdrift, N.W.T. in 1979 it became immediately apparent that variations between speakers were often extensive and that, in particular, younger speakers (roughly, under 30 years old) consistently differed from older speakers and that the variation was greatest between the youngest and the oldest speakers.