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

"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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Avelino Becerra, Heriberto, 1968- (Editor ), Coler, Matt (Editor ), Wetzels, Leo (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2016]
Colección:Brill's studies in the indigenous languages of the Americas ; v. 12.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.