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Title The phonetics and phonology of laryngeal features in Native American languages / edited by Heriberto Avelino, Matt Coler, W. Leo Wetzels
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2016]
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Description 1 online resource (vi, 325 pages)
Series Brill's Studies in the Indigenous Languages of the Americas ; volume 12
Brill's studies in the indigenous languages of the Americas ; v. 12
Contents Preface; Chapter 1 Introduction to Laryngeal Features in Languages of the Americas; Chapter 2 Overlapping Laryngeal Classes in Athabaskan Languages: Continuity and Change; Chapter 3 Stem-Final Ejectives in Ahtna Athabascan; Chapter 4 Deg Xinag Word-Final Glottalized Consonants and Voice Quality; Chapter 5 Consonant-Tone Interactions: A Phonetic Study of Four Indigenous Languages of the Americas; Chapter 6 Phonetics in Phonology: A Cross-Linguistic Study of Laryngeal Contrast
Chapter 7 The Role of Prominent Prosodic Positions in Governing Laryngealization in Vowels: A Case Study of Two Panoan LanguagesChapter 8 Pitch and Glottalization as Cues to Contrast in Yucatec Maya; Chapter 9 Amazonia and the Typology of Tone Systems; Chapter 10 The Reconstruction of Laryngealization in Proto-Tukanoan; Chapter 11 The Status of the Laryngeals 'ʔ' and 'h' in Desano; Chapter 12 Temporal Coordination of Glottalic Gestures in Karitiana; Index
Summary "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. Contributors include Heriberto Avelino, Thiago Chacon, Didier Demolin, Jose Elias-Ulloa, Melissa Frazier, Matthew Gordon, Sharon Hargus, Larry M. Hyman, Keren Rice, Wilson De Lima Silva, Luciana Storto, and Siri G. Tuttle."-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on July 14, 2017)
Subject Indians of North America -- Languages -- Phonetics
Indians of North America -- Languages -- Phonology
Indians of South America -- Languages -- Phonetics
Indians of South America -- Languages -- Phonology
Laryngeals (Phonetics)
FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY -- Native American Languages.
Indians of South America -- Languages -- Phonology
Laryngeals (Phonetics)
Form Electronic book
Author Avelino Becerra, Heriberto, 1968- editor
Coler, Matt, editor
Wetzels, Leo, editor
LC no. 2015045562
ISBN 9789004303218
9004303219