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2016-01-01

Puderbaugh, Rebekka

The Totonacan languages of Mexico are known to make extensive use of glottal stop and laryngealization, but little is known about the phonetic realizations of these contrasts. As part of a larger project investigating laryngealization in Totonacan, this paper presents a description of some...

2024-04-01

Allan Plesniarski

This study focused on exploring ASR systems primarily for the transcription of the Totonac languages of Coatepec and Upper Necaxa. Best ASR transcription results were achieved using Meta Research MMS multilingual model with the Wave2vec ASR framework. The Totonac languages were transcribed with a...

2015-05-01

Puderbaugh, Rebekka

The present paper investigates the effects of word position, stress and vowel phonation on the duration of ejective fricatives in Upper Necaxa Totonac (UNT), a Totonacan language of northern Puebla, Mexico. Duration measurements were taken of frication and periods of silence occurring between...

Spring 2024

Moore, Devin

Recording and transcribing textual material is a critical part of documentary and descriptive linguistics. The advantages of text collection in minority language communities are recognised to extend beyond linguistics and texts offer a valuable record of the community’s oral history. Although...

2008

Beck, D.

2008

Lam. Y., Beck, D.

In this paper we propose the term “linguistic suicide” to refer to situations where parents who are speakers of a minority language deliberately choose not to teach this language to their children and instead adopt a majority language in their home. In the case of speakers of Upper Necaxa...

Fall 2019

Puderbaugh, Rebekka

This dissertation examines laryngealization contrasts in vowels and fricatives in Upper Necaxa Totonac. In vowels the contrast is presumed to be realized as a form of non-modal phonation, while fricatives are supposed to differ according to their production mechanism. The goal of this...

Spring 2022

Garcia-Vega, Michelle

This dissertation presents a description of the morphology and phonology of Zihuateutla Totonac (ZT), a member of the Northern branch of the Totonacan (Totonac-Tepehua) language family. Zihuateutla Totonac is spoken by about 1,100 people in northern Puebla State, Mexico. Previous to this study,...

2000

Beck, David

Individual members of the Totonacan family - a group of at least four languages spoken in East Central Mexico - have been claimed to either lack adjectives or to have only a restricted, closed class of adjectives, words expressing property concepts belonging to the class ofnoun. The basisfor this...

2009

Lam, Y., Dorian, N.C.

This article examines the factors that have led to a shift to Spanish in the Upper Necaxa Totonac communities of east-central Mexico. Despite the fact that Spanish and Totonac have been in contact since before the eighteenth century, the shift to the majority language has only occurred in the...