MICHELSON ] OWL SACRED PACK OF THE FOX INDIANS 13 
Consonants 
Stops. Spirants. | Affricatives.} Nasals. | Semi-vowels, 
Ce GniMlee meee... oS - paste 8 eet € c = = pO 
POLST oh a ee ere kak gah a) e= = a yy 
ISTE OU SS es | ete te ‘te Ite | — ae 
Menmtglescaecc ANSE Oe t tid Sing — no — 
ap ee eee iy open eS = mm wW 
Following the recommendations of the committee of the American 
Anthropological Association (see p. 1 of Phonetic Transcription of 
Indian Languages, Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, vol. 66, 
No. 6), I have employed the symbols and general scheme of Dr. 
Jones save where, in my judgment, they are inadequate. 
Owing to the fact that the Fox language has “‘sentence-phonetics,”’ 
and that the number of words I could record at a time depended 
on the length of the words, the resulting text, of course, contained 
mixed phonetics. It has on the whole seemed best to normalize 
the sentence-phonetics so as to give a truer picture of the language. 
In this normalization I have substituted full-sounding vowels for 
the voiceless aspirated ones before initial consonants, save where 
the sense indicates a pause; before initial vowels and ai- the preced- 
ing terminal vowels are eliminated. In this way complicated sym- 
bols such as -m™', -g™v4* have for the most part been eliminated in 
favor of -mA, -gwaA respectively. Of course this normalization has 
not been rigidly adhered to, for the Foxes themselves are not entirely 
consistent in it, being guided to some extent by the tempo. Final 
vowels are aspirated before initial sibilants. On the other hand, 
it was not possible to normalize the sentence and word accent; so 
that this text is “mixed” to this extent. I have followed the dicta- 
tor in this respect. The point is practically confined to trisyllabic 
and quadrisyllabic words. When words are given by themselves out- 
side of a sentence ordinarily the penult is accented. Jones’s Fox 
Texts are unaccented. 
Another point may be properly brought up here, namely, the 
treatment of final 7 of one morphological unit before another such 
unit beginning with a vowel or diphthong. The elision of this varies 
among different speakers, and is also dependent on the tempo. I 
have followed the usage of the dictator in this respect. The glottal 
stop is merely rhetorical. 
In conclusion it may be noted that Edward Davenport does not 
pronounce aspirations before initial vowels and ai, save rhetorically. 
