This book is a phonetic fieldwork study of the sound system of an importantNative American language. It is one of the few monographlength phoneticinvestigations... » 

This book is a phonetic fieldwork study of the sound system of an importantNative American language. It is one of the few monographlength phoneticinvestigations of an indigenous North American language. As the field oftypological studies grows it is evident that the languages of the Americashave to be included in order to obtain a complete picture of natural humanlanguage especially since the American Indian languages show significantlydifferent typological features. The Navajo Sound System provides a baselinedescription of the phonetics of the Navajo language as it is spoken on theNavajo reservation today is based on an instrumental analysis of recordingscollected from native speakers is important to classroom education languageinstruction and clinical speech pathology and audiology settings helpsbroaden our knowledge of sound systems beyond the range of English and morewell studied languages is a complement to the seminal Young and Morgangrammars and dictionaries of Navajo language. «