secondary, and unstressed. Stress affects the phonetic length of syllable rimes (lengthening the vowel or the syllable-final sonorant consonant). Additionally, there are three tones: high, mid, and low — the mid tone being the most frequent. Text Two sentences with interlinear glosses: {| class="wikitable" ! style="text-align: left;" | Picuris: | || || || || |- style="font-style: italic;" ! style="text-align: left;" | English gloss: | corn || pumpkins || beans || we.two.will.make || at.going.being-at.Picuris-we.good.dwell |- ! style="text-align: left;" | Free translation: | colspan="5" | "Corn, pumpkins, beans, we live happily at Picuris by raising an abundant crop." |} {| class="wikitable" ! style="text-align: left;" | Picuris: | || |- style="font-style: italic;" ! style="text-align: left;" | English gloss: | you || you.have.the.tail |- ! style="text-align: left;" | Free translation: | colspan="2" | "It's your turn." |} See also Picuris Pueblo Tiwa languages Notes Bibliography Harrington, John P.; & Roberts, Helen. (1928). Picuris children's stories with texts and songs. Bureau of American Ethnology: Annual report, 43, 289-447. Nichols, Lynn. (1994). Vowel copy and stress in Northern Tiwa (Picurís and Taos). In S. Epstein et al. (Eds.), Harvard working papers in linguistics (Vol. 4, pp. 133–140). Nichols, Lynn. (1995). Referential hierarchies and C-command in Picurís. In S. Epstein et al. (Eds.), Harvard working papers in linguistics (Vol. 45, pp. 76–92). Trager, Felicia. (1968). Picuris Pueblo, New Mexico: An ethnolinguistic "salvage" study. (Doctoral dissertation, State University of New York, Buffalo, NY). Trager, Felicia. (1971). The phonology of Picuris. International Journal of American Linguistics, 37, 29-33. Trager, Felicia. (1975). Morphemic change in Picuris: A case of culture contact? Studies in Linguistics, 25, 89-93. Trager, George L. (1942). The historical phonology of the Tiwa languages. Studies in Linguistics, 1 (5), 1-10. Trager, George L. (1943). The kinship and status terms of the Tiwa languages. American Anthropologist, 45 (1), 557-571. Trager, George L. (1969). Taos and Picuris: How long separated?. International Journal of American Linguistics, 35 (2), 180-182. Zaharlick, Ann Marie (Amy). (1975). Pronominal reference in Picurís. Studies in Linguistics, 25, 79-88. Zaharlick, Ann Marie (Amy). (1977). Picurís syntax. (Doctoral dissertation, American University). Zaharlick, Ann Marie (Amy). (1979). Picuris and English: Similarities and differences. In R. J. Rebert (Ed.), Language descriptions from Indian New Mexico (pp. 20–51). Albuquerque: The University of New Mexico, American Indian Bilingual Education Center, pp. Zaharlick, Ann Marie (Amy). (1980). An outline of Picuris syntax. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 345, 147-163.