for AMP:
muuyuus
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Annie Miner Peterson’s Milluk
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Exactly Jacobs’ transcription
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Americanist Phonetic & IPA
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mú·yu·s
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[ mú·yu·s ]
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[ ˈmuˑyuˑs ]
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Vowel
Length in the Word: In the Milluk texts, Jacobs phonetically transcribed the vowel in
the second syllable of this word as being a long vowel in just one of the six
times in the Milluk texts that this word occurs. In our table of
transcriptions, we write it as being a long vowel as a transcription of the
word as it occurs in Jacobs’ work with Mrs. Peterson because of the fact that
Jacobs wrote it as a long vowel in his slip-file dictionary. That was when he had a chance to consider all
of the six or more times that he had transcribed this word in his work with
Mrs. Peterson. Moreover, that is the
pronunciation that we hear from Lolly Metcalf.
We also notice that twice in the Milluk texts the word is written with
the vowel of the last syllable being a stressed vowel. We take that indication of stress in two
tokens of the word as a clue that Jacobs was hearing this vowel as the same
longish vowel that he heard when he wrote the instance of the word in the
Milluk texts where he actually indicated that the vowel in the second syllable
was long. Stress and vowel length are two different things, but stressed vowels
tend to be not only louder than unstressed vowels, but also a bit longer than
unstressed vowels.
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