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Mary R. Haas
Mary R. Haas
Pages 148-159
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PIKE THE WORK OF MARY HAAS has a special fascination for me, since she finisher! her cloctoral dissertation on Tunica, an American Indian language, in 1935, the same year that I starter!
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on various research tasks on American Indian languages under the anthropology department at Yale en c! the American Philosophical Society, ~ 935-41, on Thai, ~ 941-45, uncler the American Council of Learner!
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PHONOLOGY BITS AMONG THE TUNICA Because of my own interest in phonology for the years 1935-50, I will start by discussing a few of the phonological issues that Haas facet! in studying the North American language Tunica (an "isolate" with historical relationships not clear)
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ones having two or more main clauses en c! complex ones having a main clause plus one or more subordinate clauses of clepenclent, complementary, relative, or aciverbial types)
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. These occur in Tunica in English translation with footnote alternative literal translations or comments.
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the tones of four Thai cliaTects with tone patterns differing in their relation to consonants and to geographical occurrence. Thai itself has high, mid, Tow, rising, en c!
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to Henry Lee Smith, {r., of the Language Section in the Education Branch en c! liaison with the Intensive Language Program, through l.
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Memorization of paradigms is not enough, conversational teaching is neeclecI. For many students beginning the stucly of a foreign language, these approaches shouIc!
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they can use it to "carry on all their work practice reflects one of the basic assumptions of our methocI: SPEAKING MUST COME BEFORE READING." About half of the stuclent's time goes into "more traclitional" work with "grammatical discussion, wore! study, translation of Thai into English en c!
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"It gives them a sense of reality en c! the assurance that they are actually on the way." FOR THIS MEMOIR ~ have drawn heavily on Haas's curriculum vitae provided by the National Academy of Sciences, and I am grateful for a recent obituary by Golla, which includes a Haas bibliography of about 130 items (V.
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Spoken Thai, books I and II. Ithaca, N.Y.: Spoken Language Services.
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