Critchfield, Jean 1963

Critchfield, Jean. 1963. A binary comparison of the Car and Central dialects of Nicobarese. Unpublished ms., Berkeley, CA.

@misc{32652,
  author       = {Critchfield, Jean},
  howpublished = {Unpublished ms., Berkeley, CA},
  title        = {A binary comparison of the Car and Central dialects of Nicobarese},
  year         = {1963},
  hhtype       = {comparative (computerized assignment from "comparison")},
  inlg         = {English [eng]},
  keywords     = {Car: Comp w Nicobarese; Nicobarese: Dialects; Nicobarese, Bompaka: Clfn; Nicobarese, Central: Clfn; Nicobarese, Coastal Great: Clfn; Nicobarese, Little: Clfn; Nicobarese, Northern: Clfn; Nicobarese, Shompe: Clfn; Nicobarese, Southern: Clfn},
  lgcode       = {Car Nicobarese [caq] (computerized assignment from "car and nicobarese")},
  macro_area   = {Eurasia},
  seanote      = {Abstract in <International Journal of American Linguistics> 32(1966).4:393},
  src          = {sala, stampe},
  stampeann    = {#R758; |*},
  stampedesc   = {A reconstruction of Proto-Nicobarese based on Car data of the author and of Whitehead, and on Central (Nancowry) data of Man. On the basis of 211 cognates the consonants /p t c k f s m n J G r l v r y h ?/ are reconstructed, all but six of the correspondences being identities in all environments. Vowel reconstructions are less certain, the proposed inventory (like that of the consonants) matching that of Car. It is suggested that the Central vowels may have been inadequately transcribed. Despite the slight phonological divergence between the two dialects, the number of cognates is rather small. A Nicobarese custom of word-taboo is discussed as a possible explanation for this accelerated replacement of lexical items}
}