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for AMP:
yaalaaq
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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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yá·láq
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[ ya·la·q ]
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[ yɑˑlɑˑq ]
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This word occurs just once in the Milluk
texts. We assume that Jacobs actually
heard the vowel in the second syllable of this word as a vowel that was just
about as long as the vowel in the first syllable. He systematically did not write vowel length
for word-final vowels in Milluk words in open syllables. We have to suspect that his not writing the
vowel in the second syllable of this word as a long vowel is an extenstion of
that habit in doing his transcriptions.
Notice that in Jacobs’ transcription the vowel in the second syllable of
this word is written as a stressed vowel.
In some languages, including English, stressed vowels tend to be longer
as well as louder than they would be if unstressed. |