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There he studied the Ute and Southern Paiute languages, intending originally to work on Hopi he decided to work with Tony Tillohash who proved to be the perfect informant.
His research on Southern Paiute, in collaboration with consultant Tony Tillohash, led to a 1933 article which would become influential in the characterization of the phoneme.

Tillohash and Paiute
Sapir worked with his father to transcribe a number of Paiute songs that Tillohash knew.

Tillohash and .
Tony Tillohash with family.
Tillohash became a good friend of Sapir, and visited him at his home in New York and Philadelphia.

was and Sapir's
Whorf took on a central role among Sapir's students and was well respected.
He was also deeply influenced by Sapir's death in early 1939.
Born in German Pomerania, Sapir's parents emigrated to America when he was a child.
Edward Sapir's first language was Yiddish, and later English.
Sapir's 1905 Master's thesis was an analysis of Johann Gottfried Herder's Treatise on the Origin of Language, and included examples from Inuit and Native American languages, not at all familiar to a Germanicist.
Sapir's first fieldwork was on the Wishram Chinook language in the summer of 1905, funded by the Bureau of American Ethnology.
Sapir's second wife, Jean Victoria McClenaghan, was sixteen years younger than him, had first met Sapir as a student in Ottawa, but had since also come to work at the University of Chicago's department of Juvenile Research.
Sapir's special focus among American languages was in the Athabaskan languages, a family which especially fascinated him.
Russian Psychologist Lev Vygotsky read Sapir's work and experimentally studied the ways in which the development of concepts in children was influenced by structures given in language.
But the reputation he had during his lifetime belies this idea: his academic peers at Yale University considered the " amateur " Whorf to be the best man available to take over Sapir's graduate seminar in Native American linguistics while Sapir was on sabbatical in 1937 – 38.
The Sapir – Whorf hypothesis influenced the development and standardization of Interlingua during the first half of the 20th Century, but this was largely due to Sapir's direct involvement.
In any case, it was Harry Hoijer ( Sapir's student ) who coined the term.
By the time Sapir's 1929 Encyclopædia Britannica article was published, he had added two more branches:
Zuni was included with reservations under Aztec-Tanoan within Edward Sapir's heuristic 1929 classification ( without supporting evidence ).

was and collaborator
In spite of being an old Chaosium's and Stafford's collaborator, Tadashi Ehara was the editor of the magazine during the periods concerned by both publishing houses.
The feature was produced by UPA, and directed by his former Warner collaborator, Abe Levitow.
Caprino directed and animated ; Bjarne Sandemose ( Caprino's principal collaborator throughout his career ) built most of the props, sets and cars and was in charge of the technical aspects of making the film ; Ingeborg Riiser designed the puppets and Gerd Alfsen made the costumes and props.
In June 2012, it was announced that producer Kathleen Kennedy, a long-term collaborator with Steven Spielberg and a producer of the Indiana Jones films, had been appointed as co-chair of Lucasfilm Ltd.
The divorce became final in December 17, 2001. Throughout the mid-1990s, many tabloids reported that he was having an affair with longtime friend and collaborator Trisha Yearwood.
Scarface was the first film in which Hawks worked with screenwriter Ben Hecht, who became a close friend and collaborator for twenty years.
He was a friend and collaborator of the political sociologist Barrington Moore, Jr. and of the political philosopher Robert Paul Wolff, and also a friend of the Columbia University sociology professor C. Wright Mills, one of the founders of the New Left movement.
During and after the German occupation Hergé was accused of being a collaborator because of the Nazi control of the paper (), and he was briefly taken in for interrogation after the war.
Caprino directed and animated, Bjarne Sandemose ( Caprino's principal collaborator throughout his career ) built the sets and the cars, and was in charge of the technical side, Ingeborg Riiser modeled the puppets and Gerd Alfsen made the costumes and props.
When the Amin regime was collapsing, he fled to Kenya with his family, fearful that he would be seen as a collaborator ; this was more likely because he was a member of the Langi tribe, many of whom were persecuted by Amin, whereas Akii-Bua was cited by Amin as an example of a Langi who was doing well.
Fra Luca Bartolomeo de Pacioli ( sometimes Paccioli or Paciolo ; 1445 – 1517 ) was an Italian mathematician, Franciscan friar, collaborator with Leonardo da Vinci, and seminal contributor to the field now known as accounting.
Gilbert was a collaborator in the creation of this book as well as Le Guide Culinaire with Escoffier, leading to some cross-over with the two books.
She co-starred often with Swedish actor and fellow Bergman collaborator, Erland Josephson, with whom she made the 1973 Swedish television drama, Scenes from a Marriage, which was also edited to feature-film length and distributed theatrically.
He was a frequent collaborator with some of the most famous film directors in history, including John Ford and William Wyler.
Despite these hindrances, his aim ( and that of his collaborator John Dryden ) was to establish serious opera in England, but these hopes ended with Purcell's early death at the age of 36.
Johann Spurzheim was Gall's most important collaborator.
He — first as a hostage in Rome, then as client to the Scipios, and finally as a collaborator with Roman rule after 146 BC — was in a position to freely to express his opinions if they were negative towards Rome.
But whereas Newton vehemently denied gravity was an inherent power of matter, his collaborator Roger Cotes made gravity also an inherent power of matter, as set out in his famous preface to the Principia's 1713 second edition which he edited, and contra Newton himself.
The original score was composed by Carter Burwell, a longtime collaborator of the Coen Brothers.

was and on
He was thinking of Rittenhouse and how he had left him there, to rock to death on the porch of the Splendide.
The Gap looming before him -- the place where had confronted Jack English on that day so many years ago -- was his exit from all that had meaning to him.
Someone evidently was on duty there.
Then he was on his way at a gallop.
The bullet had torn through the flesh just above the knee, inflicting an ugly gash that was forming a pool of blood on the floor.
Mike tested the leg and found that he was able to hobble around on it.
Then he went on to the Cheyennes and told them that the Sioux was goin' to move up.
In the brief moment I had to talk to them before I took my post on the ring of defenses, I indicated I was sickened by the methods men employed to live and trade on the river.
What else he said was lost in the rattle of gunfire on all sides.
He grabbed her by the shoulders and went down on one knee, taking her weight so that some of the wind was driven out of him.
He got up slowly, and she was already on her feet, and he stood facing her.
On a shelf in the office behind the counter was a small radio dialed permanently on a station which broadcast only vulgar commercials and cheap popular music.
Once, pressing him, I learned that his job was only part-time, in the afternoons when nothing went on in the hall.
This desire, I went on, growing voluble as my conviction was aroused, had mounted at such a rate recently that I now found its realization necessary not only to my physical but also to my spiritual wellbeing.
It was to him that Barton had sent Carl Dill on Dill's release from the prison.
When they reached their neighbor's house, Pamela said a few polite words to Grace and kissed Melissa lightly on the forehead, the impulse prompted by a stray thought -- of the type to which she was frequently subject these days -- that they might never see one another again.
He had to depend on himself, since he was invariably miles and hours away from others.
He'd started a fire and put coffee on, and now was busy at the work board of his chuck wagon.
He'd put on his old brown corduroy coat and it was already soaked.
He was puffing on a cigar, and he was turning up his coat collar against the rain.
No man laid a hand on him, but the threat of violence was there.
I found a trooper once the Apache had spread-eagled on an ant hill, and another time we ran across some teamsters they'd caught, tied upside down on their own wagon wheels over little fires until their brains was exploded right out o' their skulls.

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