@phdthesis{25464,
  address               = {Ann Abor},
  author                = {Derrick-Mescua, Mary Tyler},
  pages                 = {xvi+473},
  publisher             = {UMI},
  school                = {Gainesville: University of Florida},
  title                 = {A Phonology and Morphology of Mikasuki},
  year                  = {1980},
  abstract              = {Mikasuki is an Eastern Muskogean language spoken by approximately 74% of the 2,000 Florida Seminole, who live in the southern part of the state. While brief mention of the language was made in the 18th and 19th centuries, the bulk of descriptive studies has been written during the last twenty years. The present study, which includes a detailed phonological description and a morphological sketch, is the most extensive work to appear to date. It is based on data collected during five and one half months' residence at Big Cypress Reservation in south Florida and on work with various Mikasuki speakers off the reservation over a five-year period from 1972 until 1977. Chapter 1 presents a brief history of the development of the Seminole, a description of the linguistic situation and bilingual education projects of the Seminole, and a survey of literature. Chapters 2 through 5 contain the phonological analysis with emphasis on the suprasegmentals of pitch, length and stress. The phonemic inventory of consonants and vowels, their distribution within the syllable and positions of contrast and neutralization are given in Chapter 2. The distribution of the three contrastive pitches, conditioned by phonological and morphological criteria, and the phonetic details of the realization of the contrastive pitches is given in Chapter 3. Chapter 4 is concerned with contrastive vowel length and nasalization. The distribution of stress in noun roots, and in inflected and uninflected verbs is given in Chapter 5. Chapters 3, 4, and 5, and Appendix II also contain spectrographic data contained from wide- and narrow-band spectrograms and average amplitude readings made from data taped in the field. These were used in the discussion of the phonetic realization of pitch, length, nasalization and stress. The morphological sketch in Chapter 6 summarizes and expands the grammatical examples used throughout the study and points to areas needing further research. Also included are two texts in phonetic and phonemic transcriptions, with interlinear and free translations. The three appendices contain a discussion of the Mikasuki alphabet, wide-band spectrograms comparing nasalized and non-nasalized vowels, and a list of a-stem and i-stem verbs.},
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  besttxt               = {ptxt2\north_america\derrick-mescua_mikasuki1980_o.txt},
  cfn                   = {north_america\mescua_mikasuki1980_o.pdf},
  citekeys              = {cldf1:Derrick-Mescua-1980 cldf4:g_Derrick-Mescua_Mikasuki},
  class_loc             = {PM1974.Z9},
  degree                = {PhD},
  delivered             = {north_america\mescua_mikasuki1980_o.pdf},
  digital_formats       = {PDF 12.05Mb image-only PDF},
  document_type         = {B},
  fn                    = {north_america\derrick_mikasuki1980_o.pdf, north_america\derrick-mescua_mikasuki1980.pdf, north_america\mescua_mikasuki1980_o.pdf, north_america\derrick-mescua_mikasuki1980_o.pdf, north_america/mescua_mikasuki1980_o.pdf},
  hhtype                = {grammar},
  inlg                  = {English [eng]},
  isreferencedby        = {cldf1 cldf4},
  lgcode                = {Mikasuki [mik]},
  macro_area            = {North America},
  mpi_eva_library_shelf = {PM 1974 .Z9 DER 2007},
  mpifn                 = {mikasuki_mescua1980_o.pdf},
  oclc                  = {747259277},
  source                = {DAI-A 41/05, p. 2086, Nov 1980},
  src                   = {cldf, hh, mpieva},
  subject               = {LANGUAGE, LINGUISTICS (0290)},
  subject_headings      = {Mikasuki language – Phonology, Mikasuki language – Morphology, Mikasuki, Mikasuki language – Phonology – Mikasuki language – Morphology – Mikasuki},
  umi_id                = {8025367},
  wals_ref_name         = {Derrick-Mescua 1980}
}