- The Tereno Indians, numbering approximately 5000, live in eleven villages in southwestern Mato Grosso, Brazil. Their language is classified as Arawakan; cf. N. A. McQuown's classification in the American Anthropologist LVII (1955), pp. 501–570. The data for this paper were gathered from January to April, 1959, while residing at Chacara União, near Miranda, Mato Grosso, working under the auspices of the National Museum of Brazil.
- See the phonemic analysis by M. Harden in “Syllable Structure in Terena,” International Journal of American Linguistics XII (1946), pp. 60–63. The two additional vowel phonemes set up by Miss Harden are accounted for by the hy phoneme in this analysis. Otherwise the two analyses are the same.
- All Tereno material in this paper is in phonetic and not phonemic transcription.
- For an introduction to the theory of prosodic analysis see J. R. Firth, “Sounds and Prosodies”, Transactions of the Philological Society, 1948, pp. 127–152; and R. H. Robins, “Aspects of Prosodic Analysis”, Proceedings of the University of Durham Philological Society, volume I, Series B, No. 1 (1957).
- The term “phonetic exponent” is used for the phonetic actualization of the phonological categories.
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