Tone and Accent in Oklahoma Cherokee

Tone and Accent in Oklahoma Cherokee
Author: Hiroto Uchihara
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 321
Release: 2016
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 0198739443

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This book examines the tone and accent of Oklahoma Cherokee, in which 6 possible pitch patterns can occur on a syllable: low, high, low-high, high-low, lowfall, and superhigh. It investigates the distribution and source of these patterns, the principles that determine their positions, and the nature of tonal alternations.

Cherokee Reference Grammar

Cherokee Reference Grammar
Author: Brad Montgomery-Anderson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2015
Genre: Cherokee language
ISBN: 9780806143422

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The Cherokees have the oldest and best-known Native American writing system in the United States. Invented by Sequoyah and made public in 1821, it was rapidly adopted, leading to nineteenth-century Cherokee literacy rates as high as 90 percent. This writing system, the Cherokee syllabary, is fully explained and used throughout this volume, the first and only complete published grammar of the Cherokee language.

Prosodic Phonology in Oklahoma Cherokee

Prosodic Phonology in Oklahoma Cherokee
Author: Samantha Lee Cornelius
Publisher:
Total Pages: 247
Release: 2019
Genre: Cherokee language
ISBN:

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In this dissertation, I provide an analysis for word level prosody in Cherokee, a Southern Iroquoian language spoken in Northeastern Oklahoma and Western North Carolina. Focusing on Cherokee as it is spoken in Oklahoma, I analyze right edges of Cherokee words, showing that the boundary tone is predictable, though its distribution is conditioned by lexical tonal phonology and other word-final phenomena. In order to account for the distribution of the boundary tone, I must first provide an analysis of lexical tone in Cherokee. There have been previous comprehensive tone analyses (Lindsey 1985; Wright 1996; Uchihara 2013), which argue for a tonal inventory with two underlying tones (high and low fall), a super high accent, and a default low which does not interact with the tonal phonology. I summarize these previous analyses and discuss what generalizations they can and cannot account for. I also argue that some low pitches in Cherokee are the surface realization of an underlying low tone. By including an underlying low tone in the tonal inventory of Cherokee, problematic surface pitch sequences from previous research can be explained. Before analyzing the boundary tone, I show all possible syllable shapes and discuss Word-Final Vowel Deletion, an optional fast speech process which often results in nonvicanonical word-final codas. I argue that there is a prosodic word which maps to a morphosyntactic word, as well as a larger prosodic word which includes enclitics. I also describe clitic linearization and attachment, and discuss how Cherokee clitics show a number of typologically unusual properties. Finally, I describe all possible alignments of the boundary tone. While mentions of the boundary tone in previous literature claim that the boundary tone only appears on word final vowels, I show a much wider range of possible surface positions for the boundary tone: 1) the boundary tone appears on a word-final vowel, 2) the boundary tone appears on anon word-final vowel, and 3) the boundary tone does not appear at all. I use a Stratal OT framework to account for the alignment of the boundary tone, as well as interactions between the surface position of the boundary tone and lexical tonal phonology, clitic attachment, and Word-Final Vowel Deletion.

Beginning Cherokee

Beginning Cherokee
Author: Ruth Bradley Holmes
Publisher:
Total Pages: 332
Release: 1976
Genre: Cherokee language
ISBN: 9780806113616

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Beginning Cherokee

Beginning Cherokee
Author: Ruth Bradley Holmes
Publisher: Audio-Forum
Total Pages: 332
Release: 1992-01-01
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 9780884327264

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27 lessons with accompanying exercises, teaching the basics of Cherokee in the dialect of Oklahoma

Language Among the Cherokee

Language Among the Cherokee
Author: Robert Berdan
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 1982
Genre: Bilingualism
ISBN:

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