The Phonetics and Phonology of Laryngeal Features in Native American Languages (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9789004303201)

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, and 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.
Matt Coler (PhD Free University Amsterdam) is Head of the Cognitive Systems Group at INCAS3, a Dutch Research Institute. He is an Associated Member at CNRS UMR 5263 "Cognition, Langues, Langage, Ergonomie", a Visiting Scholar at the University Groningen, and a Review Panelist in Cultural Anthropology and Linguistics for the National Science Foundation. Previously he was a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Amazonian Languages at the Free University Amsterdam. Coler is the author of A Grammar of Muylaq' Aymara (2014).
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 the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.

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.