| List of figures |
S. XIII |
| Abbreviations and special symbols |
S. XIV |
| A note on the spelling system |
S. XVI |
| Foreword |
S. XIX |
| Part I: Selected studies |
| 1. |
Introduction |
S. 3 |
| 1.1. |
Possible contributions of a linguistic study of songs |
S. 3 |
| 1.2. |
Previous studies |
S. 5 |
| 1.3. |
History of this study |
S. 7 |
| 2. |
An overview of Havasupai music |
S. 8 |
| 2.1. |
Havasupai language and verbal arts |
S. 8 |
| 2.2. |
Havasupai songs |
S. 11 |
| 3. |
The phonology of singing |
S. 31 |
| 3.1. |
The phoneme in language and song |
S. 31 |
| 3.2. |
Phonological rules for vowels |
S. 39 |
| 3.3. |
Consonantal considerations |
S. 49 |
| 3.4. |
Vocables |
S. 50 |
| 3.5. |
Summary of phonological characteristics of song texts |
S. 56 |
| 4. |
Some syntactic characteristics of Havasupai songs |
S. 57 |
| 4.1. |
Nominal style |
S. 57 |
| 4.2. |
Affixes and increments in songs |
S. 62 |
| 4.3. |
Auxiliary verbs |
S. 66 |
| 4.4. |
Demonstratives |
S. 68 |
| 5. |
Patterns of interaction between language and music |
S. 79 |
| 5.1. |
Phonological interactions of language and music |
S. 79 |
| 5.2. |
Syntactic interactions of language and music |
S. 92 |
| 5.3. |
Summary |
S. 100 |
| 6. |
Language, function and meaning |
S. 101 |
| 6.1. |
Songs with real words: what is communicated? |
S. 101 |
| 6.2. |
Communication and function of the circle dance songs |
S. 104 |
| 6.3. |
Songs without words |
S. 107 |
| 6.4. |
Musical change |
S. 114 |
| 7. |
Appendix to Part I: A thumbnail sketch of havasupai grammar |
S. 115 |
| 7.1. |
Phonology |
S. 115 |
| 7.2. |
The sentence |
S. 115 |
| 7.3. |
Verbs |
S. 116 |
| 7.4. |
Nouns |
S. 139 |
| 7.5. |
Demonstratives |
S. 144 |
| 7.6. |
Miscellaneous special constructions |
S. 144 |
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| Notes |
S. 148 |
| References |
S. 156 |
Part II: Selected texts |
S. 163 |
