The phonetics and phonology of laryngeal features in Native American languages / / 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...

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Superior document:Brill's Studies in the Indigenous Languages of the Americas, Volume 12
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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.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary material / Heriberto Avelino , Matt Coler and W. Leo Wetzels
  • Introduction to Laryngeal Features in Languages of the Americas / Heriberto Avelino , Matt Coler and W. Leo Wetzels
  • Overlapping Laryngeal Classes in Athabaskan Languages: Continuity and Change / Keren Rice
  • Stem-Final Ejectives in Ahtna Athabascan / Siri G. Tuttle
  • Deg Xinag Word-Final Glottalized Consonants and Voice Quality / Sharon Hargus
  • Consonant-Tone Interactions: A Phonetic Study of Four Indigenous Languages of the Americas / Matthew Gordon
  • Phonetics in Phonology: A Cross-Linguistic Study of Laryngeal Contrast / Heriberto Avelino
  • The Role of Prominent Prosodic Positions in Governing Laryngealization in Vowels: A Case Study of Two Panoan Languages / José Elías-Ulloa
  • Pitch and Glottalization as Cues to Contrast in Yucatec Maya / Melissa Frazier
  • Amazonia and the Typology of Tone Systems / Larry M. Hyman
  • The Reconstruction of Laryngealization in Proto-Tukanoan / Thiago Costa Chacon
  • The Status of the Laryngeals ‘ʔ’ and ‘h’ in Desano / Wilson Silva
  • Temporal Coordination of Glottalic Gestures in Karitiana / Didier Demolin and Luciana Storto
  • Index / Heriberto Avelino , Matt Coler and W. Leo Wetzels.