TY - JOUR
T1 - The phonetics and phonology of Uspanteko (Mayan)
AU - Bennett, Ryan
AU - Harvey, Meg
AU - Henderson, Robert
AU - Méndez López, Tomás Alberto
N1 - Funding Information:
We thank the Uspanteko speakers whose recordings we describe here, and all the speakers who have helped us better understand their language – k’omo chawe chaq! We also thank the Comunidad Lingüística Uspanteka for their generous support of our work, and for making this research possible. We are particularly grateful to Salvador Pinula Ical, Rosa Lidia Ajpoop, Alejandro Pedro Vázquez Tay, Devora Ixcoy Patzan, and Juana Bernardina Ajpop Tiquiram for their help over the years. Two reviewers provided thoughtful feedback which helped improve the content and presentation of this paper. This research was supported by NSF grants BCS/DEL‐1757473 (to Bennett) and BCS/DEL‐1551666 (to Henderson). Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation. 1
Funding Information:
We thank the Uspanteko speakers whose recordings we describe here, and all the speakers who have helped us better understand their language – k’omo chawe chaq! We also thank the Comunidad Lingüística Uspanteka for their generous support of our work, and for making this research possible. We are particularly grateful to Salvador Pinula Ical, Rosa Lidia Ajpoop, Alejandro Pedro Vázquez Tay, Devora Ixcoy Patzan, and Juana Bernardina Ajpop Tiquiram for their help over the years. Two reviewers provided thoughtful feedback which helped improve the content and presentation of this paper. This research was supported by NSF grants BCS/DEL-1757473 (to Bennett) and BCS/DEL-1551666 (to Henderson). Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.
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PY - 2022/9
Y1 - 2022/9
N2 - Uspanteko is an endangered Mayan language spoken by up to 6000 people in the Guatemalan highlands. We provide an overview of the phonetics and phonology of Uspanteko, focussing on phenomena which are common in Mayan languages and/or typologically interesting. These include glottalised consonants (ejectives, implosives, and glottal stop), uvular consonants, vowel length contrasts, syllable structure, stress, and lexical tone. Tone is unusual among Mayan languages, especially in Guatemala, and the phonetic description here complements the small handful of existing descriptions of tone in Uspanteko and within the Mayan family.
AB - Uspanteko is an endangered Mayan language spoken by up to 6000 people in the Guatemalan highlands. We provide an overview of the phonetics and phonology of Uspanteko, focussing on phenomena which are common in Mayan languages and/or typologically interesting. These include glottalised consonants (ejectives, implosives, and glottal stop), uvular consonants, vowel length contrasts, syllable structure, stress, and lexical tone. Tone is unusual among Mayan languages, especially in Guatemala, and the phonetic description here complements the small handful of existing descriptions of tone in Uspanteko and within the Mayan family.
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U2 - 10.1111/lnc3.12467
DO - 10.1111/lnc3.12467
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:85138545985
SN - 1749-818X
VL - 16
JO - Language and Linguistics Compass
JF - Language and Linguistics Compass
IS - 9
M1 - e12467
ER -