Summer Research Update: Bennett in Guatemala

Professor Ryan Bennett returned to Guatemala this summer, and he sent in this report:

“In mid-June, I returned to Guatemala, for the first time since 2019, to carry out fieldwork on Uspanteko, an endangered Mayan language with fewer than 6000 speakers. While there, my collaborators and I at the University of Arizona (Robert Henderson and Megan Harvey) presented the results of our recently-completed National Science Foundation grant on the sound structure of Uspanteko to the Uspanteko community in a one-day workshop.

I also just returned from MIT, where I presented a colloquium on vowel reduction in Uspanteko, drawing on data collected as part of the same NSF grant.”