Glottalized stops in K'ekchi (Maya)

Visualizing Maya

Pervasive animation in games, animation, films, numerous websites and stand-alone information interfaces, means that software increasingly influences how we imagine fictions, display information and interact with a digitally mediated world. Given its centrality in creating image, how can a 3D software package be made visible beyond the images seen in cinema, in games, commercials and visualizat...

Origins of the Maya Forest Garden: Maya Resource Management

The Maya Forest: destroyed or cultivated by the ancient Maya?

B oth academic and popular perceptions concerning the relationship between the Maya (ancient and modern) and the Maya Forest in which their culture developed and persisted formore than three millennia are varied and continuously subject to change (1). The analysis of a sediment core from a pond located near the ancient Maya city of Copan, Honduras, interpreted byMcNeil et al. (2) in this issue ...

Maya Rossin

…………………………………………………………………… 1 Introduction ……………………………………………………………….. 1 Contributions of My Study and Literature Review ……………………….. 3 Data ………………………………………………………………………. 19 Theory and Method ………………………………………………………. 21 Preliminary Analysis and Summary Statistics …………………………… 24 Results and Discussion …………………………………………………… 27 Policy Recommendations and Conclusion ……………………………….. 38

Contrast and laryngeal states in Tz’utujil A preliminary investigation

This paper investigates the phonetics and phonology of stop consonant allophony in the Mayan language Tz’utujil (Guatemala; ∼ 70,000 speakers). Tz’utujil, like Mayan languages more generally, contrasts plain voiceless stops with a glottalized stop series. The allophonic realization of this laryngeal state contrast varies dramatically by context, with prevocalic stops showing starkly different p...