symbols in some work on an American Indian language he had done for Sapir. When Sapir saw the work he "simply blew up", Voegelin said, and demanded that...

vowel. Shoshoni and Comanche have both lost the velar nasals, merging them with *n or turning them into velar nasal-stop clusters. In Comanche, nasal-stop...

the phonemic status of /ŋ/. In support of treating the velar nasal as an allophone of /n/, Sapir (1925) claims on psychological grounds that [ŋ] did not...

Proto-Norse and Old Norse nasal vowels. Retention of Proto-Germanic voiced labio-velar approximant /w/: wattn ('water'), will ('wants'), wet ('knows'): compare...

origin in a language spoken in Beringia, between the two continents. Edward Sapir originally constructed the term Na-Dene to refer to a combined family of...

with velar frication [tx, kx] (they are phonetically affricates – homorganic in the case of [kx], heterorganic in the case of [tx]). The velar aspiration...

fronted velar with following palatal glide and the backed velar. Complicating this pattern are words borrowed from Spanish that have a velar followed...

Axelrod 1993, p. 17. Sapir & Golla 2001. Sapir & Golla 2001, p. 817. Sapir & Golla 2001, p. 818. adapted from Campbell (2007) Sapir & Golla 2001, p. 865-866...

structuralists like Ferdinand de Saussure, Edward Sapir, and Leonard Bloomfield. Some structuralists (though not Sapir) rejected the idea of a cognitive or psycholinguistic...

linguistics, as the background for a famous article by linguist Edward Sapir and his collaborator Tony Tillohash on the nature of the phoneme. The three...