CONTENTS 



Page. 



Editor's preface 637 



Introduction 639 



§§ 1-24. Phonetics 643 



§§ 1-13. Chukchee 643 



§ 1. Vowels 643 



§ 2. Consonants 644 



§ 3. Vocalic ablaut 646 



§ 4. Initial and terminal consonants 651 



§ 5. Medial consonantic clusters 652 



§ 6. Vocalic contraction 653 



§ 7. Medial consonantic processes 653 



§ 8. Auxiliary vowels 657 



§9. u,w 658 



§ 10. Intervocalic elision 659 



§ 11. Plionetic influences between words 659 



§ 12. Initial consonantic clusters 660 



§ 13. Pronunciation of men and women 665 



§§ 14-18. Koryak 666 



§ 14. Vowels 666 



§ 15. Consonants 667 



§ 16. Comparison with Chukchee 667 



§ 17. Vocalic ablaut 671 



§ 18. Other phonetic processes 672 



§§ 19-23. Kamcliadal 675 



§ 19. Vowels 675 



§ 20. Consonants 676 



§ 21. Comparison with Chukchee and Koryak 677 



§ 22. Vocalic ablaut 678 



§ 23. Other phonetic processes 679 



§ 24. Accent 680 



§§ 25-129. Morphology 681 



§ 25. Morphological processes 681 



§ 26. Comparison cf dialects 684 



§§27-55. Nouns 686 



§ 27. General remarks 686 



§§ 28-32. Theabsolute form 687 



§ 28. Absolute form expressed by stem 687 



§ 29. Reduplicated forms 688 



§ 30. Suffix -n, -ni 691 



§ 31. Absolute form with loss of phonetic elements 692 



§ 32. Special forms 693 



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