The Phonetics and Phonology of Laryngeal Features in Native American Languages

This book presents insights into laryngeal features. Taking diverse theoretical perspectives, it investigates properties such as tone, non-modal phonation, non-pulmonic production mechanisms, stress, and prosody in several indigenous languages of the Americas.

Heriberto Avelino (PhD UCLA) has been a postdoctoral researcher at the University of California, Berkeley and the University of Helsinki. He has taught at UCLA, UC Berkeley, Stanford University, the University of Toronto. He has also served as Director of the Phonetics Laboratory at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (2009-2013). Avelino holds a Distinguished Research Chair at the Center for Research and Advanced Studies in Social Anthropology in Mexico City.Leo Wetzels (PhD Nijmegen University) holds the chair of Romance Languages and Amazonian Languages at the Free University Amsterdam. He is the Chief Editor of Probus and Associate Editor for South-America for the International Journal of American Linguistics. He received a Doctorate Honoris Causa from Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.Matt Coler (PhD Free University Amsterdam) is Head of the Cognitive Systems Group at INCAS3, a Dutch Research Foundation where his work is dedicated to speech technologies. Previously he was a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Amazonian Languages at the Free University Amsterdam, He is the author A Grammar of Muylaq' Aymara (2014) and is a Review Panelist in Cultural Anthropology and Linguistics for the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Foundation (USA). 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.