IJAL Texts Online, vol. 3, number 1, September 2020

Paulette Levy, National Autonomous University of Mexico

This contribution presents three narratives in Coatepec Totonac written by Manuel Oropeza Castro in 1938 in Coatepec, Puebla, and recorded at an audio lab in Mexico City in 1950. They are part of a collection of 36 Coatepec Totonac texts curated by Norman A. McQuown from 1938 to 1968. McQuown’s graphic representation system is based on segmental sandhi phenomena at several levels of the prosodic hierarchy of Coatepec Totonac, so it is quite opaque to a modern reader. In this rendering of the texts, the first line is McQuown’s original phonological representation, followed by a line that shows the boundary segmental phenomena at three levels of the hierarchy, implicit in McQuown’s representation. I then give a modern rendering of the texts in terms of morphosyntactic words, morphologically analyzed and glossed, and a free translation.

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