The phonetics and phonology of laryngeal features in Native American languages / / edited by Heriberto Avelino, Matt Coler, W. Leo Wetzels.

• Superior document: Brill's Studies in the Indigenous Languages of the Americas, Volume 12
• TeilnehmendeR: Avelino Becerra, Heriberto, 1968-; Coler, Matt,; Wetzels, Leo,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, [Netherlands] ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : Brill,, 2016.; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Brill's studies in the indigenous languages of the Americas ; Volume 12.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (333 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.
• Other title: Preliminary material /; Introduction to Laryngeal Features in Languages of the Americas /; Overlapping Laryngeal Classes in Athabaskan Languages: Continuity and Change /; Stem-Final Ejectives in Ahtna Athabascan /; Deg Xinag Word-Final Glottalized Consonants and Voice Quality /; Consonant-Tone Interactions: A Phonetic Study of Four Indigenous Languages of the Americas /; Phonetics in Phonology: A Cross-Linguistic Study of Laryngeal Contrast /; The Role of Prominent Prosodic Positions in Governing Laryngealization in Vowels: A Case Study of Two Panoan Languages /; Pitch and Glottalization as Cues to Contrast in Yucatec Maya /; Amazonia and the Typology of Tone Systems /; The Reconstruction of Laryngealization in Proto-Tukanoan /; The Status of the Laryngeals ‘ʔ’ and ‘h’ in Desano /; Temporal Coordination of Glottalic Gestures in Karitiana /; Index /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
• ISBN: 9004303219
• ISSN: 1876-5580
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Heriberto Avelino, Matt Coler, W. Leo Wetzels.

This book presents unique insights into laryngeal features, one of the most intriguing topics of contemporary phonetics and phonology. It investigates in detail properties such as tone, non-modal phonation, non-pulmonic production mechanisms (as in ejectives or implosives), stress, and prosody. What makes American indigenous languages special is that many of these properties co-exist in the phonologies of languages spoken on the continent. Taking diverse theoretical perspectives, the contributions span a range of American languages, illustrating how the phonetics and phonology of laryngeal features provides insight into how potential articulatory and aero-acoustic conflicts are resolved, which contrastive laryngeal features can co-occur in a given language, which features pattern together in phonological processes and how they evolve over time. This contribution provides the most recent research on laryngeal features with an array of studies to expand and enrich the fascinating field of phonetics and phonology of the languages of the Americas.