Abstracts
Abstract
Utkuhiksalik is a sub-dialect of Natsilik within the Western Canadian Inuit dialect continuum. Unlike many Western dialects, Utkuhiksalik contrasts /h/ and /s/, /j/ and /ř/. The goal of this paper is to show how such contrasts arose: we describe the sound changes from Proto-Eskimoan *j, *ð, and *c to Utkuhiksalik /h/, /s/, /j/ and /ř/.
Résumé
L’utkuhiksalik est un sous-dialecte natsilik qui se situe dans le continuum dialectal de l’inuit de l’ouest du Canada. Contrairement à bien d’autres dialectes de l’ouest, l’utkuhiksalik démontre une opposition phonologique entre /h/ et /s/, /j/ et /ř/. Le but de cet article est d’esquisser comment ces contrastes se sont développés: nous décrivons les changements historiques à partir des sons proto-esquimaux *j, *ð, et *c jusqu’aux sons utkuhiksalik /h/, /s/, /j/, et /ř/.
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