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Book SynopsisThis 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.
Table of ContentsPreface 1. Introduction to Laryngeal Features in Languages of the Americas Heriberto Avelino, Matt Coler, and Leo Wetzels 2. Overlapping Laryngeal Classes in Athabaskan Languages: Continuity and Change Keren Rice 3. Stem-Final Ejectives in Ahtna Athabascan Siri G. Tuttle 4. Deg Xinag Word-Final Glottalized Consonants and Voice Quality Sharon Hargus 5. Consonant-Tone Interactions: A Phonetic Study of Four Indigenous Languages of the Americas Matthew Gordon 6. Phonetics in Phonology: A Cross Linguistics Study of Laryngeal Contrast Heriberto Avelino 7. The Role of Prominent Prosodic Position in Governing laryngealization in Vowels: A Case Study of Two Panoan Languages José Elías-Ulloa 8. Pitch and Glottalization as Cues to Contrast in Yucatec Maya Melissa Frazier 9. Amazonia and the Typology of Tone Systems Larry M. Hyman 10. The Reconstruction of Laryngealization in Proto-Tukanoan Thiago Costa Chacon 11. The Status of the Laryngeals ‘ʔ’ and ‘h’ in Desano Wilson Silva 12. Temporal Coordination of Glottalic Gestures in Karitiana Didier Demolin and and Luciana Storto Index
