Monday 4/26/2021, 12pm: Yuan Chai, “Yateé Zapotec sound inventory”

Yateé Zapotec is spoken in San Francisco Yateé (Oaxaca, Mexico), as well as by diaspora communities around Los Angeles, USA. There are approximately 480 speakers of Yateé Zapotec in Oaxaca in 2017. The talk presents the acoustic and phonological properties of the fortis and lenis consonants, the modal, creaky, and checked phonations, and the interaction between phonation and tone in Yateé Zapotec.