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A rule ordering paradox in Hare1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 June 2016

Keren Rice
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Recent changes in Hare, an Athapaskan language of the lower Mackenzie River Valley, require that a rule of epenthesis be ordered in two places in the grammar. The original rule is ordered before a rule of vowel raising. In the innovative dialect of Hare, part of the environment for this epenthesis rule is revised and it must be ordered after the raising rule.

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Research Article
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Canadian Journal of Linguistics/Revue canadienne de linguistique , Volume 25 , Issue 1 , Spring 1980 , pp. 25 - 34
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Linguistic Association 1980

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Footnotes

1

Hare is an Athapaskan language spoken in the settlements of Fort Good Hope and Colville Lake, Northwest Territories, Canada. Special thanks go to all of the consultants whom I have worked with. Thanks also to Lynda Ackroyd for useful comments. This research is funded by the Northern Social Research Division, Department of Indian and Northern Affairs, Ottawa.

I use the practical orthography for the Athapaskan languages of the Northwest Territories. The orthographic symbols below have the following phonetic values:

References

Rice, Keren D. (1976) Hare Phonology. Ph.D. thesis, University of Toronto.Google Scholar
Rice, Keren D. (1980) Slave Grammar. To be published by Northern Social Research Division, Department of Indian and Northern Affairs, Ottawa.Google Scholar