Meg Harvey, a linguist and post-doctoral researcher with Native American and Indigenous Studies, recently published the paper "Vowel deletion as grammatically controlled gestural overlap in Uspanteko" in Language, along with Ryan Bennett at UC Santa Cruz and Robert Henderson at the University of Arizona. Using electroglottography data collected in the field, they suggest that seemingly deleted vowels in Uspanteko are actually still present in the output, just obscured by grammatically-controlled overlapping speech gestures which make them inaudible. This is different from previous analyses that assumed that the vowel gestures weren't present at all, and implies that, at the very least, language specific phonetic processes like this one have access to more fine-grained, abstract grammatical information than was previously assumed.