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Mon-Khmer Studies Volume 41
Mon-Khmer Studies VOLUME 42 The journal of Austroasiatic languages and cultures Established 1964 Copyright for these papers vested in the authors Released under Creative Commons Attribution License Volume 42 Editors: Paul Sidwell Brian Migliazza ISSN: 0147-5207 Website: http://mksjournal.org Published in 2013 by: Mahidol University (Thailand) SIL International (USA) Contents Papers (Peer reviewed) K. S. NAGARAJA, Paul SIDWELL, Simon GREENHILL A Lexicostatistical Study of the Khasian Languages: Khasi, Pnar, Lyngngam, and War 1-11 Michelle MILLER A Description of Kmhmu’ Lao Script-Based Orthography 12-25 Elizabeth HALL A phonological description of Muak Sa-aak 26-39 YANIN Sawanakunanon Segment timing in certain Austroasiatic languages: implications for typological classification 40-53 Narinthorn Sombatnan BEHR A comparison between the vowel systems and the acoustic characteristics of vowels in Thai Mon and BurmeseMon: a tendency towards different language types 54-80 P. K. CHOUDHARY Tense, Aspect and Modals in Ho 81-88 NGUYỄN Anh-Thư T. and John C. L. INGRAM Perception of prominence patterns in Vietnamese disyllabic words 89-101 Peter NORQUEST A revised inventory of Proto Austronesian consonants: Kra-Dai and Austroasiatic Evidence 102-126 Charles Thomas TEBOW II and Sigrid LEW A phonological description of Western Bru, Sakon Nakhorn variety, Thailand 127-139 Notes, Reviews, Data-Papers Jonathan SCHMUTZ The Ta’oi Language and People i-xiii Darren C. GORDON A selective Palaungic linguistic bibliography xiv-xxxiii Nathaniel CHEESEMAN, Jennifer -
Prosody of Tone Sandhi in Vietnamese Reduplications
Prosody of Tone Sandhi in Vietnamese Reduplications Authors Thu Nguyen Linguistics program E.M.S.A.H. University of Queensland St Lucia, QLD 4072, Australia Email: [email protected] John Ingram Linguistics program E.M.S.A.H. University of Queensland St Lucia, QLD 4072, Australia Email: [email protected] Abstract In this paper we take advantage of the segmental control afforded by full and partial Vietnamese reduplications on a constant carrier phrase to obtain acoustic evidence of assymetrical prominence relations (van der Hulst 2005), in support of a hypothesis that Vietnamese reduplications are phonetically right headed and that tone sandhi is a reduction phenomenon occurring on prosodically weak positions (Shih, 2005). Acoustic parameters of syllable duration (onset, nucleus and coda), F0 range, F0 contour, vowel intensity, spectral tilt and vowel formant structure are analyzed to determine: (1) which syllable of the two (base or reduplicant) is more prominent and (2) how the tone sandhi forms differ from their full reduplicated counterparts. Comparisons of full and partial reduplicant syllables in tone sandhi forms provide additional support for this analysis. Key words: tone sandhi, prosody, stress, reduplication, Vietnamese, acoustic analysis ____________________________ We would like to thank our subjects for offering their voices for the analysis, Dr. Nguyen Hong Nguyen for statistical advice and the anonymous reviewers for their valuable comments and suggestions. The Postdoctoral research fellowship granted to the first author by the University of Queensland is acknowledged. Prosody of tone sandhi in Vietnamese reduplications 2 1. Introduction Vietnamese is a contour tone language, which is strongly syllabic in its phonological organization and morphology. -
Consonant Cluster Acquisition by L2 Thai Speakers
English Language Teaching; Vol. 10, No. 7; 2017 ISSN 1916-4742 E-ISSN 1916-4750 Published by Canadian Center of Science and Education Consonant Cluster Acquisition by L2 Thai Speakers Apichai Rungruang1 1 Faculty of Humanities, Naresuan University, Phitsanulok, Thailand Correspondence: Apichai Rungruang, Faculty of Humanities, Naresuan University, Phitsanulok, Thailand. E-mail: [email protected] Received: April 29, 2017 Accepted: June 10, 2017 Online Published: June 13, 2017 doi: 10.5539/elt.v10n7p216 URL: http://doi.org/10.5539/elt.v10n7p216 Abstract Attempts to account for consonant cluster acquisition are always made into two aspects. One is transfer of the first language (L1), and another is markedness effects on the developmental processes in second language acquisition. This study has continued these attempts by finding out how well Thai university students were able to perceive English onset and coda clusters when they were second year and fourth year students. This paper also aims to investigate Thai speakers’ opinions about their listening and speaking skills, and whether their course subjects enhanced their performance. To fulfil the first objective, a pretest and posttest were launched to measure how the 34 Thai participants were able to identify 40 onset and 120 coda clusters at different periods of time. The statistical findings show that even though their overall scores in the fourth year were higher than those in the second year, there was no statistically significant difference in both major types of clusters [t = -1.29; p value >0.05 in onsets; t = -0.28; p value >0.05 in codas]. The Thai participants performed slightly better in onset (84% / 86%) than in coda (70% / 71%). -
On the Theoretical Implications of Cypriot Greek Initial Geminates
<LINK "mul-n*">"mul-r16">"mul-r8">"mul-r19">"mul-r14">"mul-r27">"mul-r7">"mul-r6">"mul-r17">"mul-r2">"mul-r9">"mul-r24"> <TARGET "mul" DOCINFO AUTHOR "Jennifer S. Muller"TITLE "On the theoretical implications of Cypriot Greek initial geminates"SUBJECT "JGL, Volume 3"KEYWORDS "geminates, representation, phonology, Cypriot Greek"SIZE HEIGHT "220"WIDTH "150"VOFFSET "4"> On the theoretical implications of Cypriot Greek initial geminates* Jennifer S. Muller The Ohio State University Cypriot Greek contrasts singleton and geminate consonants in word-initial position. These segments are of particular interest to phonologists since two divergent representational frameworks, moraic theory (Hayes 1989) and timing-based frameworks, including CV or X-slot theory (Clements and Keyser 1983, Levin 1985), account for the behavior of initial geminates in substantially different ways. The investigation of geminates in Cypriot Greek allows these differences to be explored. As will be demonstrated in a formal analysis of the facts, the patterning of geminates in Cypriot is best accounted for by assuming that the segments are dominated by abstract timing units such as X- or C-slots, rather than by a unit of prosodic weight such as the mora. Keywords: geminates, representation, phonology, Cypriot Greek 1. Introduction Cypriot Greek is of particular interest, not only because it is one of the few varieties of Modern Greek maintaining a consonant length contrast, but more importantly because it exhibits this contrast in word-initial position: péfti ‘Thursday’ vs. ppéfti ‘he falls’.Although word-initial geminates are less common than their word-medial counterparts, they are attested in dozens of the world’s languages in addition to Cypriot Greek. -
Mechanisms of Vowel Epenthesis in Consonant Clusters: an EMA Study Seiya Funatsu, Masako Fujimoto
Mechanisms of vowel epenthesis in consonant clusters: an EMA study Seiya Funatsu, Masako Fujimoto To cite this version: Seiya Funatsu, Masako Fujimoto. Mechanisms of vowel epenthesis in consonant clusters: an EMA study. Acoustics 2012, Apr 2012, Nantes, France. hal-00810613 HAL Id: hal-00810613 https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00810613 Submitted on 23 Apr 2012 HAL is a multi-disciplinary open access L’archive ouverte pluridisciplinaire HAL, est archive for the deposit and dissemination of sci- destinée au dépôt et à la diffusion de documents entific research documents, whether they are pub- scientifiques de niveau recherche, publiés ou non, lished or not. The documents may come from émanant des établissements d’enseignement et de teaching and research institutions in France or recherche français ou étrangers, des laboratoires abroad, or from public or private research centers. publics ou privés. Proceedings of the Acoustics 2012 Nantes Conference 23-27 April 2012, Nantes, France Mechanisms of vowel epenthesis in consonant clusters: an EMA study S. Funatsua and M. Fujimotob aPrefectural University of Hiroshima, 1-1-71 Ujinahigashi Minami-ku, 734-8558 Hiroshima, Japan bNational Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics, 10-2 Midori-machi, 190-8561 Tachikawa, Japan [email protected] 341 23-27 April 2012, Nantes, France Proceedings of the Acoustics 2012 Nantes Conference The mechanisms of vowel epenthesis in consonant clusters were investigated using an electromagnetic articulograph (EMA). The target languages were Japanese and German. Japanese does not allow consonant clusters, while German does. Two Japanese speakers and two German speakers participated in this experiment. For Japanese speakers, normalized tongue tip displacements from the first consonant to the second consonant in clusters (/bn/, /pn/) were significantly larger than those of German speakers (p<0.001). -
8Th Euroseas Conference Vienna, 11–14 August 2015
book of abstracts 8th EuroSEAS Conference Vienna, 11–14 August 2015 http://www.euroseas2015.org contents keynotes 3 round tables 4 film programme 5 panels I. Southeast Asian Studies Past and Present 9 II. Early And (Post)Colonial Histories 11 III. (Trans)Regional Politics 27 IV. Democratization, Local Politics and Ethnicity 38 V. Mobilities, Migration and Translocal Networking 51 VI. (New) Media and Modernities 65 VII. Gender, Youth and the Body 76 VIII. Societal Challenges, Inequality and Conflicts 87 IX. Urban, Rural and Border Dynamics 102 X. Religions in Focus 123 XI. Art, Literature and Music 138 XII. Cultural Heritage and Museum Representations 149 XIII. Natural Resources, the Environment and Costumary Governance 167 XIV. Mixed Panels 189 euroseas 2015 . book of abstracts 3 keynotes Alarms of an Old Alarmist Benedict Anderson Have students of SE Asia become too timid? For example, do young researchers avoid studying the power of the Catholic Hierarchy in the Philippines, the military in Indonesia, and in Bangkok monarchy? Do sociologists and anthropologists fail to write studies of the rising ‘middle classes’ out of boredom or disgust? Who is eager to research the very dangerous drug mafias all over the place? How many track the spread of Western European, Russian, and American arms of all types into SE Asia and the consequences thereof? On the other side, is timidity a part of the decay of European and American universities? Bureaucratic intervention to bind students to work on what their state think is central (Terrorism/Islam)? -
Register in Eastern Cham: Phonological, Phonetic and Sociolinguistic Approaches
REGISTER IN EASTERN CHAM: PHONOLOGICAL, PHONETIC AND SOCIOLINGUISTIC APPROACHES A Dissertation Presented to the Faculty of the Graduate School of Cornell University in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirement for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy by Marc Brunelle August 2005 © 2005 Marc Brunelle REGISTER IN EASTERN CHAM: PHONOLOGICAL, PHONETIC AND SOCIOLINGUISTIC APPROACHES Marc Brunelle, Ph.D. Cornell University, 2005 The Chamic language family is often cited as a test case for contact linguistics. Although Chamic languages are Austronesian, they are claimed to have converged with Mon-Khmer languages and adopted features from their closest neighbors. A good example of such a convergence is the realization of phonological register in Cham dialects. In many Southeast Asian languages, the loss of the voicing contrast in onsets has led to the development of two registers, bundles of features that initially included pitch, voice quality, vowel quality and durational differences and that are typically realized on rimes. While Cambodian Cham realizes register mainly through vowel quality, just like Khmer, the registers of the Cham dialect spoken in south- central Vietnam (Eastern Cham) are claimed to have evolved into tone, a property that plays a central role in Vietnamese phonology. This dissertation evaluates the hypothesis that contact with Vietnamese is responsible for the recent evolution of Eastern Cham register by exploring the nature of the sound system of Eastern Cham from phonetic, phonological and sociolinguistic perspectives. Proponents of the view that Eastern Cham has a complex tone system claim that tones arose from the phonemicization of register allophones conditioned by codas after the weakening or deletion of coda stops and laryngeals. -
Suggestions for the ISO/IEC 14651 CTT Part for Hangul
SC22/WG20 N891R ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC2/WG2 N2405R L2/01-469 (formerly L2/01-405) Universal Multiple-Octet Coded Character Set International Organization for Standardization Organisation internationale de normalisation Title: Ordering rules for Hangul Source: Kent Karlsson Date: 2001-11-29 Status: Expert Contribution Document Type: Working Group Document Action: For consideration by the UTC, JTC 1/SC 2/WG 2’s ad hoc on Korean, and JTC 1/SC 22/WG 20 1 Introduction The Hangul script as such is very elegantly designed. However, its incarnation in 10646/Unicode is far from elegant. This paper is about restoring the elegance of Hangul, as much as it can be restored, for the process of string ordering. 1.1 Hangul syllables A lot of Hangul syllables have a character of their own in the range AC00-D7A3. They each have a canonical decomposition into two (choseong, jungseong) or three (choseong, jungseong, jongseong) Hangul Jamo characters in the ranges 1100-1112, 1161-1175, and 11A8-11C2. The choseong are leading consonants, one of which is mute. The jungseong are vowels. And the jongseong are trailing consonants. A Hangul Jamo character is either a letter or letter cluster. The Hangul syllable characters alone can represent most modern Hangul words. They cannot represent historic Hangul words (Middle Korean), nor modern/future Hangul words using syllables not preallocated. However, all Hangul words can elegantly be represented by sequences of single-letter Hangul Jamo characters plus optional tone mark. 1 1.2 Single-letter and cluster Hangul Jamo characters Cluster Hangul Jamo characters represent either clusters of two or three consonants, or clusters of two or three vowels. -
Re-Imagining “Annam”: a New Analysis of Sino–Viet– Muong Linguistic Contact
Chinese Southern Diaspora Studies, Volume 4, 2010 南方華裔研究雑志第四卷, 2010 Re-Imagining “Annam”: A New Analysis of Sino–Viet– Muong Linguistic Contact John D. Phan©2010 Abstract: This article examines the linguistic boundaries that separated (or united) Medieval China’s southern territories and the river plains of northern Vietnam at the end of the first millennium C.E. New evidence from Sino–Vietnamese vocabulary demonstrates the existence of a regional dialect of Middle Chinese, spoken in the Ma, Ca, and Red River plains. Preliminary analysis suggests that a “language shift” away from this “Annamese Middle Chinese” in favor of the local, non-Chinese language, was largely responsible for the highly sinicized lexicon of modern Vietnamese. This theory, which challenges the tradition of an essentially literary source for Sino–Vietnamese, may help to explain some of the sinicized features of Vietnamese phonology and syntax as well. The last section of the article presents a tentative hypothesis for the formal emergence of Vietnamese contra its closest relative, Muong. These hypotheses require further testing, and are presented here as a first look at the history of the languages of “Annam”. Key Words: Ancient Vietnam; Sino–Vietnamese; Muong; historical phonology; language contact Introduction This article revisits the notions of “Chinese” and “Vietnamese” in a linguistic context, and as they pertain to the transitional period linking the first and second millennia C.E. New evidence from Sino–Vietnamese (Chinese words borrowed into Vietnamese), and the Vietnamese language’s closest living relative, Muong, demonstrate that traditional notions of the “survival” of the Vietnamese language under centuries of Chinese domination create a false imagining of its history and evolution—one that has been tailored to a political agenda of national identity. -
Programme Et Résumés Programme and Abstracts
Congrès de l’ACL 2015 CLA Conference 2015 Programme et Résumés Programme and Abstracts Congrès de l’ACL 2015 | 2015 CLA meeting Samedi 30 mai | Saturday, May 30 Fauteux 302 Fauteux 359 Fauteux 361 Syntaxe | Syntax Le français acadien | Acadian French Acquisition président | chair: Daniel Currie Hall président | chair: Walter Cichocki présidente | chair: Mihaela Pirvulescu 9:00–9:30 Amani Makkawi (Manitoba) Carmen L. LeBlanc & Laura Briggs (Carleton) Johannes Knaus & Mary Grantham O'Brien Participles as nonverbal predicates «Là les Madelinots étiont tout après boire pis ça (Calgary) chantait» ou L’étude des désinences à la 3e personne Word stress processing and the influence of cognate du pluriel suffixes in second language English: An EEG study 9:30–10:00 Annick Morin (Toronto) Emilie LeBlanc & Selena Phillips-Boyle (York) Laura Colantoni, Gabrielle Klassen, Matthew J. Où en est tu? A cross-linguistic approach to Quebec Discourse markers well and ben in Chiac Patience, Malina Radu & Olga Tararova (Toronto) French polar interrogatives Production of redundant and primary prosodic cues to sentence type by L1 Spanish and Mandarin learners of English 10:00–10:30 Éric Mathieu & Gita Zareikar (Ottawa) Basile Roussel (Ottawa) Lilliana Montoya & Joyce Bruhn de Garavito Bottles of milk and cups of sugar: A cross-linguistic Le français acadien, une variété conservatrice? (Western) perspective on measure constructions L’exemple de l’usage du subjonctif dans le Nord-Est du Information structure and nominal ellipsis in L2 Nouveau Brunswick Spanish -
Z in Company Names: Trendy Clothing for a Typical Vietnamese Sound Alexis Michaud, Minh-Châu Nguyễn, Hiển Phạm
Z in company names: trendy clothing for a typical Vietnamese sound Alexis Michaud, Minh-Châu Nguyễn, Hiển Phạm To cite this version: Alexis Michaud, Minh-Châu Nguyễn, Hiển Phạm. Z in company names: trendy clothing for a typical Vietnamese sound. Mon-Khmer Studies, 2016, 45, pp.53-65. halshs-01413258v2 HAL Id: halshs-01413258 https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-01413258v2 Submitted on 14 Mar 2018 HAL is a multi-disciplinary open access L’archive ouverte pluridisciplinaire HAL, est archive for the deposit and dissemination of sci- destinée au dépôt et à la diffusion de documents entific research documents, whether they are pub- scientifiques de niveau recherche, publiés ou non, lished or not. The documents may come from émanant des établissements d’enseignement et de teaching and research institutions in France or recherche français ou étrangers, des laboratoires abroad, or from public or private research centers. publics ou privés. Distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution - NonCommercial - ShareAlike| 4.0 International License Z in company names: trendy clothing for a typical Vietnamese sound1 Alexis MICHAUD*, Minh-Châu NGUYỄN** and Hiển PHẠM*** *International Research Institute MICA, HUST - CNRS UMI 2954 - Grenoble INP, Hanoi **Department of Linguistics, Vietnam National University, Hanoi ***Institute of Linguistics, Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences, Hanoi Abstract The letter Z is not part of the Vietnamese alphabet, any more than F, J and W. But it is far from uncommon in language use. It appears in the names of companies that target a popular audience, e.g. Zing for a local competitor to Yahoo. Why is Z, the least used letter of the English alphabet, so trendy in present-day Vietnamese? The evidence reported here suggests that the letter Z constitutes foreign-looking clothing for a typical Vietnamese sound. -
Documentation and Phonological Description of Malieng, Vietnam, with Focus on Tone
Documentation and phonological description of Malieng, Vietnam, with focus on tone. Upgrade Chapter In submission for PhD candidateship on 15/05/2019 Department of Linguistics, School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics SOAS University of London MPhil Candidate: Albert Badosa Roldós First Supervisor: Dr Nathan Hill Second Supervisor: Dr Chris Lucas Table of contents 1. Aims ................................................................................................................................................ 3 2. Vietic languages: classification and state of the art ............................................................... 4 2.1 Minorities and ethnic groups in Vietnam ........................................................................... 4 2.1.1 The concepts of minority and ethnic group ....................................................................... 4 2.1.2 Ethnic minorities in Vietnam ....................................................................................... 7 2.1.3 The research context in Vietnam ............................................................................... 10 2.1.4 Theesearch context in the Vietnamese Central Highlands ...................................... 11 2.2 Historical linguistic classification of the Austroasiatic phylum ...................................... 13 2.2.1 Problems with the classification of Austroasiatic languages ................................... 13 2.2.2 Early classification of Austroasiatic .........................................................................