Results for "Center for Indigenous Languages of Latin America"

The Center for Indigenous Languages of Latin America (CILLA), a constituent of the Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies, has been established to contribute to knowledge about the indigenous languages of Latin America, to promote their maintenance, and to coordinate teaching programs in and about indigenous languages.

Website: http://www.utexas.edu/cola/insts/llilas/centers-and-programs/cilla/overview.php

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Faculty

Megan Crowhurst

Affiliated Departments:
Linguistics, Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies
Research Interests:

- Speech perception (stress, rhythm, metathesis, laryngeal phonation)
- Prosodic phonology (word stress, reduplication, syllable structure, acoustic features that signal higher-order phonological structure)…

Patience L Epps

Affiliated Departments:
Linguistics
Research Interests:

Descriptive and documentary work on indigenous Amazonian languages, typology, language contact and language change, and the implications of the latter for studying Amazonian prehistory.

Sandro Sessarego

Affiliated Departments:
Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies, Linguistics, Spanish and Portuguese, African and African Diaspora Studies
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The Afro-Hispanic Languages of the Americas: Casting Light on their Grammar and Origin

1. My research
The Afro-Hispanic Languages of the Americas (AHLAs), the languages that developed in Latin America…

David S Stuart

Affiliated Departments:
Anthropology, Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies, Art and Art History
Research Interests:

Mesoamerican art history, archaeology and epigraphy, with a focus on ancient Maya civilization

Anthony C Woodbury

Affiliated Departments:
Linguistics
Research Interests:

Documentary and descriptive linguistics; language endangerment; grammatical analysis and theory; natural discourse and oral literature; Chatino linguistics and language preservation; Yupik-Inuit-Unangan languages and…