Bread
Two Sound Correspondences: Annie Miner Peterson’s version of the word begins with an ejective which also differs by being a uvular consonant. This is one of several examples of a sound correspondence where a Coos Bay Milluk velar consonant corresponds to a uvular consonant in Mrs. Peterson’s Milluk. So we have two regular sound correspondences here between Lolly’s Coos Bay Milluk and Annie’s Milluk. There is the velar-uvular sound correspondence and the voiced stop consonant versus ejective sound correspondence.
A Different Sound Correspondence: Annie’s Hanis word | qʼáʔlax̣ | ‘white clay’, ‘flour’ shows a completely different sound correspondence to her Milluk word | qʼál·ax̣ | ‘white clay’, ‘flour’. That is a sound correspondence of Hanis [ ʔl ] to Milluk [ lˑ ], which is to say between glottal stop plus L to Long L. However, Annie’s Hanis word | qʼáʔlax̣ | ‘white clay’, ‘flour’ does not participate in either of the two Milluk-internal sound correspondences between the two versions of the Milluk word meaning ‘white clay’, ‘flour’, and ‘bread’. To see another example of the sound correspondence of Hanis [ ʔl ] to Milluk [ lˑ ], see the interview segment “Blue”.
Instant Phonetic Englishization: gahl_lahh.
A Heavy Pronunciation of an Ejective: Lolly’s first time saying the word and her last time saying the word are the pronunciations to imitate. We count a cut-off token of the word as her third time saying the word in our table of transcriptions. For each of her pronunciations of this word, Lolly has what we call a ‘heavy pronunciation’ of the first consonant of this word which is an ejective in Annie’s Milluk. This is to say that Lolly says a voiced stop consonant at the begining of this word which is otherwise an ejective.
Where the Uvular Consonants in Words Such as This Must Have Come From: Annie learned Milluk at a very early age from her maternal grandmother who was from a village on the Lower Coquille River, so we have to imagine that it was Lower Coquelle Milluk that had uvular consonants in words such as this.