Curriculum Vitae

Heriberto Avelino

University of California, Berkeley

      Department of Linguistics

      1203 Dwinelle Hall 2650

      Berkeley, CA 94720-2650

      e–mail: heriberto.avelino@gmail.com avelino@berkeley.edu

Educación

Postdoctoral Research Fellow. University of California, Berkeley. 2004-2006.

Ph.D. in Linguistics. University of California, Los Angeles. 2004.

M.A. in Linguistics. University of California, Los Angeles. 2001.

B.A. in Linguistics. National School of Anthropology and History [Escuela Nacional de Antropología e Historia]. 1997.

Professional Experience

Visiting researcher. Department of Linguistics. University of California, Berkeley. 2015-2016.

Distinguished research chair. Center for Research and Advanced Studies in Social Anthropology, Mexico City. 2014.

Senior Scientist, Phonetics Laboratory Director. Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Research. 2009-20013.

Postdoctoral research fellow. Department of Linguistics. University of California, Berkeley. 2007.

Visiting researcher. Cognitive Brain Research Unit. University of Helsinki, Finland. 2005.

Expert witness. Spanish voice identification in court, together with Dr. Peter Ladefoged. 2004.

Evaluator of the Spanish Intelligibility Test, by Dr. Daniel Kempler. Speech and Hearing Clinics, Los Angeles County/USC Medical Center.

Associate Editor. Tlalocan. 1996–1997.

Associate Researcher. Indigenous Languages Seminar. Instituto de Investigaciones Filológicas, UNAM, 1994–1997.

Researcher Assistant. Vocabulario trilingüe Español–Nahuatl–Otomi de Alonso Urbano (1605). Dr. Yolanda Lastra researcher and Dr. Thomas SmithStark, coordinator, ‘Biblioteca Novohispana de Lenguas Indígenas’. El Colegio de México. 1992–1995.

Researcher Assistant. Atlas Lingüístico de México. Juan Miguel Lope Blanch, director. El Colegio de México. 1995.

Publications

Articles in peer-reviewed journals

Avelino, Heriberto. (accepted) México City Spanish. Journal of the International Phonetic Association.

2010. Acoustic and Electroglottographic Analyses of Nonpathological, Nonmodal Phonation. Journal of Voice, 3: 270-280.

2006. The typology of Pamean number systems. Linguistic Typology, 10, 41-60.

2000. El Sistema de Numeración en Pame Central. Anales de Antropología. 33:345–359.  Instituto de Investigaciones Antropológicas, UNAM.

1999. Morfología y Organización Prosódica en Pame Norte. Dimensión Antropológica, Vol. 13. Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia.

Books (edited)

Avelino, Heriberto, Matt Coller and Leo Wetzels (eds.) Laryngeal Features in Languages of the Americas. 2015. Brill’s Studies in the Indigenous Languages of the Americas, Lieden/Boston: Brill.

Sections in books and proceedings

Avelino, Heriberto. 2015. Phonetics in Phonology: A cross-linguistic study of laryngeal contrast. In H. Avelino, M. Coller, and L. Wetzels (eds.) Laryngeal Features in Languages of the Americas. Brill’s Studies in the Indigenous Languages of the Americas, Lieden/Boston: Brill.

Enrique Palancar and Heriberto Avelino. (submitted). Morphological Complexity in the verb inflection of Chichimec. In Endangered complexity: inflectional classes in Oto-Manguean languages. Matthew Baerman and Enrique Palancar (eds.).

Avelino, Heriberto. 2002. Sandhi Tonal en Pame Norte. Análisis Fonológico y Evidencia Fonética.  Estudios Lingüísticos sobre algunas lenguas mexicanas. Del cora al maya yucateco, Paulette Levy (ed.) Seminario de Lenguas Indígenas, Instituto de Investigaciones Filológicas, UNAM.

—. 2002. Optimización dinámica y cambio morfológico en lenguas pames. En Susana Cuevas (ed.) La lengua y la antropología para un conocimiento global del hombre. Homenaje a Leonardo Manrique. INAH. pp. 15–58.

Teaching

Instructor. Intensive field methods: Methods and techniques for phonetic data gathering, processing and analysis. Pontifical Catholic University of Peru. November, 2015.

Instructor. Properties and functions of phonation modes. Agencia Estatal Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas and Universidad Internacional Menéndez Pelayo, Madrid, Spring 2015.

Instructor. Methods and tools for Language documentation. First Bilateral Workshop Germany–Mexico and First Latinamerican School of Typology and Language Documentation. Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social-Universität zu Köln (financed byt Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) and CONACYT. Morelia, México. March, 2015.

Instructor. Phonetics and Phonolgy of Voice. Agencia Estatal Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas and Universidad Internacional Menéndez Pelayo, Madrid, Spring 2014.

Instructor. Aerodynamic Methods and Techniques. Agencia Estatal Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas and Universidad Internacional Menéndez Pelayo, Madrid, Winter 2012.

Instructor. Phonetic Field Methods and Experimental Phonology. Agencia Estatal Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas and Universidad Internacional Menéndez Pelayo, Madrid, Winter 2011.

Instructor. The International Max Planck Research School “The Leipzig School of Human Origins”, Germany, 2012, 2013.

Instructor. Phonetic Field Methods and Experimental Phonology. Universidad de Sonora, Primavera 2011.

Instructor. Phonetic Field Methods and Experimental Phonology. Universidad Nacional de Colombia. Summer, 2011.

Instructor. Field Phonetics and Laboratory Phonology. University of Concepcion, Chile. Summer, 2010.

Instructor. Field Phonetics. 3L International Summer School on Language Documentation and Description. 2010.

Instructor. Field Phonetics and Laboratory Phonology. DGfS-CNRS Summer School on Linguistic Typology. 2010.

Instructor. Contemporary Phonology. University of Concepcion, Chile. Summer, 2009.

Assistant Professor. Introduction to Linguistics; Intermediate Phonology; Advanced Phonology; Analysis and Argumentation. Department of Linguistics, University of Toronto. 2007-2008.

Lecturer. Advanced Phonetics, Introduction to Phonetics, Field Methods I, II (Yucatec Maya), Graduate Seminar I, II, III, Directed studies. Department of Linguistics. Stanford University. 2006-2007.

Adjunct Assistant Professor. Graduate Seminar. Department of Linguistics. University of California, Berkeley, 2006.

Teaching Associate. Introduction to Linguistics; Phonology. Department of Linguistics. University of California, Los Angeles. 1999, 2003.

Teaching Assistant. Department of Spanish and Portuguese. Spanish 2. University of California, Los Angeles. 1999.

Lecturer. Phonetics Workshop–Seminar. Indo–American Linguistics Program, Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social. Mexico. 2004.

Lecturer. Spanish Phonology. Graduate Program in Linguistics. Universidad de Colima, Mexico. 1997.

Lecturer. Field Methods and Phonology. Undergraduated Program in Linguistics. National School of Anthropology and History. Mexico. 1993 – 1997.

Lecturer. Spanish Phonology. Mexican Insitute for Audition and Language, IMAL. Masters program in language and auditory pathology. 1996.

Lecturer. Spanish Phonetics and Phonology. Neurolinguistics and Psicopedagogy Superior College. Program in Neurolinguistics. 1996.

Invited talks as keynote speaker (recent)

2015. Colloquium. Department of Linguistics. Pontifical Catholic University of Peru.

2015. Primer Taller Bilateral Alemania-México y Primer Escuela Latinoamericana de Tipología y Documentación Lingüística. Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social-Universität zu Köln (financed by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) and CONACYT. Morelia, México. March, 2015.

2014. Primeras Jornadas de Lengua y Cultura. En honor a Víctor Franco. Center for Research and Advanced Studies in Social Anthropology, Mexico.

2014. Workshop on the Sound Systems of Mexico and Central America. Yale University.

2012. The study of human voice from an interdisciplinary perspective. With particular reference to language pathologies. National Institute for Respiratory Diseases. Mexico City.

2011. Berkeley Tone Workshop. University of California Berkeley, 18-20 February 2011.

2010. 12th Conference on Laboratory Phonology. Invited discussant. University of New Mexico.

2010. Phonetic Explanations for a Mayan Puzzle. Formal Approaches to Mayan Linguistics. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Linguistics.

Fieldwork

Chichimec 2014. Mexico

South Aimara, Awajun and Cashibo-cacataibo. 2013, with Roberto Zariquiey and Jorge Ivan Perez. Peru.

Spanish (pathological cases) 2014. National Institute for Respiratory Diseases. Mexico.

Tojolabal, Ch’ol, Tzeltal, Tzotzil. February, March, 2010. Chiapas, Mexico.

Purepecha. January, 2010. Michoacan, Mexico.

Dayak languages: Samandang, Baram, Kwalan, Simpang. November-December, 2009, with Uri Tadmor. Kalimantan, Indonesia.

Lowland Chontal. 2005, with Ian Maddieson. Oaxaca, Mexico.

Yucatec Maya. 2006, 2007, 2010. Intensive fieldwork in San Francisco, California Yucatan and Campeche, Mexico.

Kiliwa. Two weeks December, 2007. Baja California, Mexico.

Santa Maria Ocotepec Mixe. June, 2006, with Ian Maddieson. Oaxaca, Mexico

Alotepec Mixe. June 2006. Oaxaca, Mexico.

Pima. 200-22003. One year long Field Methods class at UCLA; two weeks fieldwork in Gila River, Arizona, with Peter Ladefoged.

Yalálag Zapotec. 2001-2003. Intensive fieldwork in Los Angeles California and Oaxaca Mexico.

Santiago Comaltepec Chinantec. 2001. One month fieldwork in Los Angeles, USA.

Matlatzinca. 1996, 1997. One month over the two years. Estado de Mexico, Mexico.

Northern Pame and Central Pame. 1991, 1994, 1995, 1997. Two months each year, San Luis Potosi, Mexico.

Presentations in Conferences (selected)

Avelino, Heriberto. 2013. Typologically informed Phonetic/Phonological Fieldwork, Phonetically/Phonologically grounded Typology at the Association for Linguistic Typology 10th Biennial Conference (ALT 10). Leipzig, Germany.

Avelino, Heriberto. 2012. Mesoamerican Tonogenesis. Workshop Tone: “Theory and Practice” MPI-EVA, Leipzig.

Lancia, Leonardo, Heriberto Avelino and Daniel Voigt. 2012. Studying the interaction between irregular voice quality and lexical tones with recurrence analysis and functional mixed models. Workshop Tone: “Theory and Practice” MPI-EVA, Leipzig.

Avelino, Heriberto and Daniel Voigt. 2012. Laryngeal dynamics of final devoicing in German: Evidence from High Speed Videoendoscopy. Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America. Portland, Oregon.

Avelino, Heriberto and Enrique Palancar. 2012. Morphological Complexity in the verb inflection of Chichimec. Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of Indigenous Languages of the Americas. Portland, Oregon.

Avelino, Heriberto, Ana Maria Ospina and Daniel Voigt. 2012. Vowel harmony in Yuhup: Evidence from acoustics, electroglottography, aerodynamics and ultrasound imaging. Amazonicas 4. Pontificia Universidad Catlica del Peru, Lima, Peru.

Voigt, Daniel; Heriberto Avelino and Leonardo Lancia. 2011. Comparing creaky and pathological phonation using recurrency analysis. Pan European Voice Conference (PEVOC9). Marseille, France.

Avelino, Heriberto. 2010. Tipología y Universales fonéticos de rasgo laríngeos: Evidencia de lenguas Mesoamericanas. Coloquio Internacional Amazónicas 3, La Estructura de la Lenguas Amazónicas: Fonología y Sintaxis. Simposio Fonología y fonética de rasgos laríngeos Bogotá, Colombia, abril 19 24.

—. 2010. Tipología y Universales fonéticos de rasgo laríngeos: Evidencia de lenguas Mesoamericanas Thomas Smith-Stark: IV Conferencia sobre lenguas otomangues y sus lenguas vecinas. Biblioteca Fray Francisco de Burgoa, de la Universidad Autónoma Benito Jurez de Oaxaca, en la ciudad de Oaxaca, México, abril 16 - 18.

—. 2009. Diachronic phonology and dynamic optimization in Pamean languages. Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas. San Francisco.

Avelino, Heriberto. 2006. An acoustic study of laryngeal contrast in three American Indian Languages.  Acoustic Society of America. Honolulu, Hawaii.

—. 2006. Clearing the Throat: Laryngeal contrast in American Indian languages. Endangered Languages, Endangered Sounds: Laboratory, Field, and Phonetic Universals. In Honor of Ian Maddieson. UC-Berkeley.

Avelino, Heriberto (with Anna Shestakova and Risto Näätänen). 2006. Neural correlates to a three way constrast of duration in speech and non-speech stimuli. The 14 Manchester Phonology Meeting. Manchester, UK.

—. 2006. The phonetic structures of endangered mexican languages project: Consequences of field work phonetics for phonological theory. The 14 Manchester Phonology Meeting. Mancheser, UK.

—. 2005. Reference frame and scaling in the perception of tone. Acoustical Society of America. Minneapolis.

—. 2005. Linguistic ontologies and data categories for language resources. 2005 E-MELD Workshop on Digital Language Documentation. In conjunction with the 2005 LSA Institute, MIT.

—. 2005. The Phonetic Structures of Endangered Mexican Languages, Conference on Endangered Languages and Cultures of Native America, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah.

—. 2005. Vowel space in three Ayuuk (Mixe) languages.  Linguistic Society of America. San Francisco.

—. 2005. Articulation and acoustics in two American Indian Languages: Pima and Yalálag Zapotec. Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas. San Francisco.

—. 2005. Cognitive Systems and Diversity: Linguistic and Mathematical Reasoning in Mesoamerican Languages. Organization for Northern California Ethnomathematics (ONCE) and the Exploratorium Teacher Institute.

Avelino, Heriberto and Ian Maddieson. 2005. Glottalized consonants in Oaxaca Chontal, Acoustic Society of America, Vancouver, Canada.

Avelino, Heriberto and Fernando Nava. 2005. A Mexican model of language documentation and preservation, Conference on Endangered Languages and Cultures of Native America, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah.

Avelino, Heriberto. 2004. Optimización dinámica y cambio morfológico en lenguas pames. Homenaje a Leonardo Manrique. INAH.

—. 2004. Gender and Individual Differences in Voice Quality. Evidence from Yalálag Zapotec. Conference of Otomanguean and Oaxaca Languages. UC Berkeley.

—. 2004. Dispersion/Focalization in a dense vowel system: Santa Maria Ocotepec Mixe Workshop of American Indigenous Languages. UC Santa Barbara.

—. 2004. Phonetics and Phonology of Non-modal Phonation in Yalálag Zapotec. Linguistic Society of America. Boston.

—. 2004. Fonética y fonología de la fonación no modal. Invited lecture. Seminario de tipología de las lenguas indígenas americanas, Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia.

Avelino, Heriberto, John Foreman, Pamela Munro and Aaron H. Sonnenschein. 2004. Covert subjects in Zapotecan. Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas. Boston.

—. 2002. Diversity and unit of languages in the border of linguistic areas: Evidence from Pamean number systems; presented at the Workshop on the structure and constituency in the languages of the Americas. University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada.

—. 2000. Phonetic correlates of Fortis–Lenis in Yalálag Zapotec; presented at Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas, American Anthropological Association. San Francisco.

Avelino, Heriberto Violeta Vázquez, Lenin Noh, América Meléndez y Miguel Angel Domínguez. 1998. Flexión nominal en Matlatzinca, II Coloquio de Lingüística en la ENAH. México.

Avelino, Heriberto. 1998. Sistema de Parentesco en Chichimeco y Pame, Segundo Coloquio de Otopames. Museo Nacional de Antropología.

—. 1997. Floating Tones in Northern Pame, XXVII Meeting of The Lingustics Association of Southwest. UCLA, Los Angeles.

—. 1996. La construcción de segmentos complejos como unidades fonológicas, I Coloquio de Lingüística en la ENAH. México.

Garcia, Consuelo and Heriberto Avelino. 2004. La lengua Chichimeca: Crónica de una muerte anunciada [The Chichimec language: Chronicle of an announced death]. VI Coloquio Internacional sobre Otopames. UNAM, Mexico.

Member of editorial boards

LOQUENS. Spanish Journal of Speech Sciences / Revista espaola de Ciencias del Habla”. Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cienticas, Spain.

Revista de Lingüística Teórica y Aplicada. Universidad de Concepción. Facultad de Humanidades y Arte

Refereeing (* = more than three; ** = more than five)

Ad–hoc reviewer*. National Science Foundation.

Ad–hoc reviewer. Cognitive and Behavioral Neurology.

Ad–hoc reviewer. The Endangered Languages Documentation Programme

Ad–hoc reviewer**. International Journal of American Linguistics.

Ad–hoc reviewer. Laboratory Phonology 12.

Ad–hoc reviewer.* Journal of the International Phonetic Association.

Ad–hoc reviewer. Journal of Phonetics.

Ad–hoc reviewer. Phonology.

Ad–hoc reviewer. Australian Journal of Linguistics.

Ad–hoc reviewer. Language Documentation and Conservation.

Reviewer*. Papers submitted to the International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Hong-Kong, 2011

Reviewer*. Papers submitted to the International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Saarbrücken, Germany, 2007

Consultant. Speech and Hearing Clinics at the Los Angeles County/USC Medical Center.

Ad–hoc reviewer. Anales de Antropología, Instituto de Investigaciones Antropológicas, UNAM

Supervising, member of advisory committees

2010-2013. Daniel Voigt. Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. Post-doctorate.

2011. Mario Etzrodt. Aufbau einer Messeinrichtung zur phonetischen Feldforschung. Fachbereichs Elektrochnik un Informationstechnik. Hoschschule fr Technik Wirstchaft un Kultur. Leipzig. [Building a Measuring Device for Phonetics Field Research. Department of Information Technology and Electronics School of Engineering, Economics and Culture, Leipzig (MA thesis equivalent)].

2010. Darja Appelganz. Word final devoicing in Russian and German: Electroglottographic Analysis. Bremen University. Bachelors thesis. Chair.

2010. Sofia Kanibolotskaia. Aerodynamic Study of Word-Final Devoicing in Russian. University of Toronto Master thesis(co-chair with Kere Rice).

Conferences organized

2015. First Bilateral Workshop Germany-Mexico and First Latin American School on Language Documentation and Linguistic Typology. Morelia, Mexico. Organizer together with Nicolaus Himmelmann, Katja Hannß and Frida Villavicencio.

2013. Association for Linguistic Typology 10th Biennial Conference (ALT 10). Leipzig, Germany. Organizer together with Martin Haspelmath, Bernard Comrie, Frank Seifart, David Gil and Claudia Schmidt.

2013. Workshop “Phonetic/phonological typology and fieldwork” with Claudia Schmidt.

2012. Workshop“Tone: Theory and Practice” MPI-EVA. Organizer together with Ian Maddieson and Claudia Schmidt.

2012. Keren Rice co-organizer. Symposium Morphological Complexity in Languages of the Americas. Hosted by the Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas. Portland, Oregon.

2012. Amazonicas 4. La Estructura de las Lenguas Amazónicas: Fonologíaa y Sintaxis. Lima, Perú Pontificia Universidad Catlica del Per - Lima. Co-organizer of the Symposium Armona Segmental en Lenguas Amaznicas/Segmental Harmony in Amazonian Languages with Elsa Gomez-Imbert.

2010. Phonetic Universals. MPI-EVA. October.

2008. New Perspectives in Mayan Linguistics. Hosted by the Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas. Chicago.

Grants, Fellowships and Honors

2015. First Bilateral Workshop Germany-Mexico and First Latin American School on Language Documentation and Linguistic Typology, with Nikolaus Himmelmann and Katja Hannß, U of Köln. Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG). 52350 euros.

2012-2013. Phonetic Documentation of three Peruvian languages: South Aymara, Awajun and Cashibo-Cacataibo, with Roberto Zariquiey. Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. 50000 Peruvian nuevos soles (19227 US dollars, 14915 euros).

2012. Respiration in Speech: Physiological, Acoustic and Aerodynamic correlates of Phonological features in Spanish and Mexican Indigenous languages, with Mario Vargas and Luis Torre (National Institute of Respiratory Diseases, Mexico) Max Planck Society. 3,000 euros.

2012. Workshop ”Tone: Theory and Practice” Department of Linguistics MPI-EVA. Organizer together with Ian Maddieson and Claudia Schmidt. Max Planck Society 5,000 euros.

2011. Grant awarded to the project Las estructuras fonéticas de las lenguas yuhup, yukuna y makuna [The phonetic structures of Yuhup, Yukuna and Makuna] Ana Maria Ospina Bozzi (co-PI) $ 39.460.000 CP (22, 420.45 USD). Universidad Nacional de Colombia.

2011. Award to the best poster at the Pan European Voice Conference (PEVOC9). Marseille, France.

2007-2008. Endangered Languages Fund grant to work on the documentation and preservation of Kiliwa (Yuman, Mexico).

2007. Bing Overseas Studies Program grant to conduct fieldwork on Yucatec Maya with a group of students from Stanford University in Mexico.

2005. Fellowship from the Finnish government to carry out training on brain imaging techniques at the Cognitive Brain Research Unit, University of Helsinki.

2004 – 2005. Research Fellowship. The Phonetic Structures of Endangered Mexican Languages. University of California Berkeley.

2003 – 2004. Dissertation Grant. University of California–MEXUS.

2001.  Research Fellowship. Phonetic Studies of the Pima Language. Institute of American Cultures. UCLA.

1998 – 2004. Doctorate Fellowship. CONACYT/University of California–MEXUS.

1999. President’s Fellowship. UCLA.

Honorable Mention. Undergraduate dissertation [Tesis de licenciatura]. Annual Prizes of the National Institute of Anthropology and History. 1999.

Honorable Mention. Defense of the thesis “Fonología y Morfofonología del Pame Norte”. ENAH, INAH.

Additional Coursework

Helsinki Winter School in Cognitive Neuroscience. University of Helsinki, Finland. 2003. Risto Näätänen, mentor.

Grammatical Relations. Argument Structure, Case and Voice in North American Indian Languages, Marianne Mithun. University of California at Santa Barbara. 2001.

Basic Linguistic Theory, Robert M. W. Dixon.  University of California at Santa Barbara. 2001.

Structure of Northwestern Indian Languages, Emmon Bach. University of California at Santa Barbara. 2001.

Changes of Voice in Mayan Languages, Nora England. 1998.

Universals and Particulars in Syntax, William Foley. 1996.

Seminar on Natural Phonology, Wolfang Dressler. 1994.

An introduction to Grammatical Description from a Functional and Typological Perspective, Tomas Givon. 1994.

Membership of Professional Associations

Asociación Iberoamericana de Ciencias del Habla. President

Association for Linguistic Typology. Nominating committee (2013-2015)

International Phonetic Association

Linguistic Society of America

Acoustical Society of America

Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas

Asociación Mexicana de Lingüística Aplicada

Linguistic Association of the Southwest

American Anthropological Association

International Study Group on Ethnomathematics