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.

• Preface1. Introduction to Laryngeal Features in Languages of the AmericasHeriberto Avelino, Matt Coler, and Leo Wetzels2. Overlapping Laryngeal Classes in Athabaskan Languages: Continuity and ChangeKeren Rice3. Stem-Final Ejectives in Ahtna AthabascanSiri G. Tuttle4. Deg Xinag Word-Final Glottalized Consonants and Voice QualitySharon Hargus5. Consonant-Tone Interactions: A Phonetic Study of Four Indigenous Languages of the AmericasMatthew Gordon6. Phonetics in Phonology: A Cross Linguistics Study of Laryngeal ContrastHeriberto Avelino7. The Role of Prominent Prosodic Position in Governing laryngealization in Vowels: A Case Study of Two Panoan LanguagesJosé Elías-Ulloa8. Pitch and Glottalization as Cues to Contrast in Yucatec MayaMelissa Frazier9. Amazonia and the Typology of Tone SystemsLarry M. Hyman10. The Reconstruction of Laryngealization in Proto-TukanoanThiago Costa Chacon11. The Status of the Laryngeals ‘ʔ’ and ‘h’ in DesanoWilson Silva12. Temporal Coordination of Glottalic Gestures in KaritianaDidier Demolin and and Luciana StortoIndex

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.

• Preface1. Introduction to Laryngeal Features in Languages of the AmericasHeriberto Avelino, Matt Coler, and Leo Wetzels2. Overlapping Laryngeal Classes in Athabaskan Languages: Continuity and ChangeKeren Rice3. Stem-Final Ejectives in Ahtna AthabascanSiri G. Tuttle4. Deg Xinag Word-Final Glottalized Consonants and Voice QualitySharon Hargus5. Consonant-Tone Interactions: A Phonetic Study of Four Indigenous Languages of the AmericasMatthew Gordon6. Phonetics in Phonology: A Cross Linguistics Study of Laryngeal ContrastHeriberto Avelino7. The Role of Prominent Prosodic Position in Governing laryngealization in Vowels: A Case Study of Two Panoan LanguagesJosé Elías-Ulloa8. Pitch and Glottalization as Cues to Contrast in Yucatec MayaMelissa Frazier9. Amazonia and the Typology of Tone SystemsLarry M. Hyman10. The Reconstruction of Laryngealization in Proto-TukanoanThiago Costa Chacon11. The Status of the Laryngeals ‘ʔ’ and ‘h’ in DesanoWilson Silva12. Temporal Coordination of Glottalic Gestures in KaritianaDidier Demolin and and Luciana StortoIndex