BOAS] HANDBOOK OF INDIAIST LANGUAGES SIUSLAWAN 447 



An exception to this rule is found in the following sentence: 



Vkwa'yunoMx Tc^ Wl'a} you may get (some) salmon 48. 18 



In like manner the combination nx-^-uhs, changed into a" (see § 132). 



ya'quyunanx (thou art seen) yaqiC yv! nana^ thou art seen 



+ -u (-a") here 



§ 5. Accent 



Siuslaw exhibits a stress accent, represented here by the acute mark 

 ('); and a pitch accent, designated by the mark (^). Only a limited 

 number of enclitic and proclitic particles show no accent whatsoever. 

 The pitch accent occurs mostly in monosyllabic words that have a 

 short vow^el, and lends to the syllable a sharp, abrupt intonation. Both 

 accents are freely shifted from one syllable to another. It seems, 

 however, to be a fixed rule that in the past tense the accent is placed 

 on the first syllable, and that the locative case-endings and the adver- 

 bial suffixes must be accented. 



A«*^a'^ he goes ashore 58.17 hay'qiqyax (having) come a- 



shore 56.13 

 qa^in'x it gets dark 64.19 qa^'onxyax it became dark 34.4 



tPwatai! tcuna^x they two are 1Pwa't(%tcyaxcfin I have been 



spearing it 56.15, 16 spearing it 66.17 



t8!aln pitch 26.6 if^.^iZna' (locative case) 94.18 



ll'tio} food 34.23 lltlaya' (locative case) 13.7 



?$'a*''^'U log 32.21 Iqatuwlyu's (locative case) 



88.16 

 pVl'tl lake 62.18 pVUlyn's (locative case) 34. 11 



8%'xa} canoe 56.5 SExa^'tc into the canoe 34.5 



qa'xuii above, up 34.21 qaxuntcfi'tG upwards 



s^a'tsa thus 8.7 s^atsl'tc in that manner 8.1 



ya'^TcH'sk'in very small 36.23 yak fisTcHjiu' in a very small 



. . . 38.19 



§ 6. Phonetic Laws 



In both dialects a number of phonetic laws are found which affect 

 both vowels and consonants. All phonetic processes are due either 

 to contact phenomena or to the effects of accent. They may be sum- 

 marized as follows: 

 Vocalic Processes: 



(1) Diphthongization of I and u. 



(2) Consonantization of i- and u-. 



§§ 5-6 



