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THE PHONOLOGY of PROTO-TAI a Dissertation Presented to The
THE PHONOLOGY OF PROTO-TAI A Dissertation Presented to the Faculty of the Graduate School of Cornell University In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy by Pittayawat Pittayaporn August 2009 © 2009 Pittayawat Pittayaporn THE PHONOLOGY OF PROTO-TAI Pittayawat Pittayaporn, Ph. D. Cornell University 2009 Proto-Tai is the ancestor of the Tai languages of Mainland Southeast Asia. Modern Tai languages share many structural similarities and phonological innovations, but reconstructing the phonology requires a thorough understanding of the convergent trends of the Southeast Asian linguistic area, as well as a theoretical foundation in order to distinguish inherited traits from universal tendencies, chance, diffusion, or parallel development. This dissertation presents a new reconstruction of Proto-Tai phonology, based on a systematic application of the Comparative Method and an appreciation of the force of contact. It also incorporates a large amount of dialect data that have become available only recently. In contrast to the generally accepted assumption that Proto-Tai was monosyllabic, this thesis claims that Proto-Tai was a sesquisyllabic language that allowed both sesquisyllabic and monosyllabic prosodic words. In the proposed reconstruction, it is argued that Proto-Tai had three contrastive phonation types and six places of articulation. It had plain voiceless, implosive, and voiced stops, but lacked the aspirated stop series (central to previous reconstructions). As for place of articulation, Proto-Tai had a distinctive uvular series, in addition to the labial, alveolar, palatal, velar, and glottal series typically reconstructed. In the onset, these consonants can combine to form tautosyllabic clusters or sequisyllabic structures. -
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. -
Giao Chỉ” (”Jiāozhǐ” ) As a Diffusion Center of Chinese Diachronic Changes: Syllabic Weight Contrast and Phonologisation of Its Phonetic Correlates Frederic Pain
”Giao Chỉ” (”Jiāozhǐ” ) as a diffusion center of Chinese diachronic changes: syllabic weight contrast and phonologisation of its phonetic correlates Frederic Pain To cite this version: Frederic Pain. ”Giao Chỉ” (”Jiāozhǐ” ) as a diffusion center of Chinese diachronic changes: syllabic weight contrast and phonologisation of its phonetic correlates. 2020. halshs-02956831 HAL Id: halshs-02956831 https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-02956831 Preprint submitted on 3 Oct 2020 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. GIAO CHỈ AS A DIFFUSION CENTER | 1 "GIAO CH Ỉ" ("JI ĀOZH Ǐ" 交趾 ) AS A DIFFUSIO CETER OF CHIESE DIACHROIC CHAGES: SYLLABIC WEIGHT COTRAST AD PHOOLOGISATIO OF ITS PHOETIC CORRELATES 1 Pa n Freder c ( 白威廉 ) Laborato re Langues et Civilisations à Tradition Orale (LaC TO -CRS , UMR ,10,, Par s) 清華學報 , Tsing Hua Journal of Chinese Studies , 50 (0) The present essay tac4les a part cular l ngu st c facet of the s n c sat on process n Southeast As a. The focal argument addressed throughout th s essay l es n the cla m that G ao Ch; should be granted a central pos t on regard ng the transfer of Old and M ddle Ch nese d achron c features—may they be transferred d rectly or "by-proxy" — nto Southeast As an languages from the commandery ( jùn 郡) of G ao Ch; 交趾 westwards down to the Gulf of Tha land as well as southwards to the Me4ong Delta. -
Research Note
Research Note The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary: A Work in Progress Robert Blust and Stephen Trussel UNIVERSITY OF HAWAI‘I AT MĀNOA AND TRUSSEL SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT The Austronesian comparative dictionary (ACD) is an open-access online resource that currently (June 2013) includes 4,837 sets of reconstructions for nine hierarchically ordered protolanguages. Of these, 3,805 sets consist of single bases, and the remaining 1,032 sets contain 1,032 bases plus 1,781 derivatives, including affixed forms, reduplications, and compounds. His- torical inferences are based on material drawn from more than 700 attested languages, some of which are cited only sparingly, while others appear in over 1,500 entries. In addition to its main features, the ACD contains sup- plementary sections on widely distributed loanwords that could potentially lead to erroneous protoforms, submorphemic “roots,” and “noise” (in the information-theoretic sense of random lexical similarity that arises from historically independent processes). Although the matter is difficult to judge, the ACD, which prints out to somewhat over 3,000 single-spaced pages, now appears to be about half complete. 1. INTRODUCTION. 1 The December 2011 issue of this journal carried a Research Note that described the history and present status of POLLEX, the Polynesian Lexicon project initiated by the late Bruce Biggs in 1965, which over time has grown into one of the premier comparative dictionaries available for any language family or major subgroup (Greenhill and Clark 2011). A theme that runs through this piece is the remark- able growth over the 46 years of its life (at that time), not just in the content of the dictio- nary, but in the technological medium in which the material is embedded. -
Cham Romanization Table Background
1 Forward This proposal is for an international standard of romanization for Eastern (Akhar Thrah) and Western (Akhar Srak/Akhar Ka Kha) variants of the Indic Cham script. Cham language includes a variety of Chinese, Sanskrit, Arabic, Malay, highland, Khmer and Vietnamese loanwords. The term for the script Akhar meaning literature ‘letters’ can be found with variant pronunciations across the Sanskrit and Pali language worlds. There are an estimated 80,000 pages of yet unromanized manuscripts in Vietnam and Cambodia with more than 300 estimated titles. The target population includes 167,000 Cham in Vietnam and 400,000 to 500,000 Cham in Cambodia as well as 50,000 Cham in Malaysia. Even if only a small minority of these populations still use the script it is likely to continue to be the focus of cultural revival efforts amongst the many leaders in the Cham community. This system was first discussed at the CORMOSEA meeting in Philadelphia in 2014. Future work may include the mapping of Akhar Bani a variant of Arabic used in Vietnam onto these systems since there is currently an Akhar Bani revival underway as well.1 I. Justification of ALA-LC romanization The Cham language can be written best in either Arabic or Indic based script systems. The more popular ‘Cham script’ is from the Pallava-Grantha sub-family of the Brahmi Indic scripts, called ‘Akhar Thrah’ in Eastern Cham (Vietnam). Other scripts in this family are: Khmer, Thai, Lao, Burmese, Old Javanese, Balinese and Old Tagalog. There is no current ALA- LC romanization standard for Cham. -
B. Nothofer the Subgrouping of the Languages of the Javo-Sumatra Hesion; a Reconsideration
B. Nothofer The subgrouping of the languages of the Javo-Sumatra Hesion; A reconsideration In: Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde 141 (1985), no: 2/3, Leiden, 288-302 This PDF-file was downloaded from http://www.kitlv-journals.nl Downloaded from Brill.com09/25/2021 11:23:02AM via free access BERND NOTHOFER THE SUBGROUPING OF THE LANGU AGES OF THE JAVO-SUMATRA HESION: A RECONSIDERATION1 Dyen, in his 'A lexicostatistical classification of the Austronesian lan- guages', has suggested a subgroup which he has called the 'Javo-Sumatra Hesion'. The tree-configuration of the languages of this subgroup is as follows: DIAGRAM 1 Javo-Sumatra Hesion Malayic Hesion Malay Minang- Kerinci Madurese Achinese Lam- Kroë Sunda- Java- kabau pung nese nese In my dissertation I attempted the reconstruction of the proto-language of the Javo-Sumatra Hesion and called the ancestor 'Proto-Malayo- Javanic' (Nothofer 1975). For the reconstruction I selected Malay, Sundanese, Javanese and Madurese as criterion-languages. I tested BERND NOTHOFER, who obtained his Ph.D. from Yale University, is at present professor of Southeast Asian Studies at Frankfurt. Specialized in comparative Austrone- sian linguistics, he is the author of The Reconstruction of Proto-Malayo-Javanic and Dialektgeographische Untersuchungen in West-Java und im westlichen ZentralJava. Prof. Nothofer may be contacted at Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universitat, Südostasienwissen- schaften, Postfach 11 19 32,6000 Frankfurt am Main. Downloaded from Brill.com09/25/2021 11:23:02AM via free access The Languages of the Javo-Sumatra Hesion 289 Dyen's subgrouping by recalculating the cognate percentages among these four languages on the basis of a thorough knowledge of the reflexes of the proto-phonemes in them. -
PART I: NAME SEQUENCE Name Sequence
Name Sequence PART I: NAME SEQUENCE A-ch‘ang Abor USE Achang Assigned collective code [sit] Aba (Sino-Tibetan (Other)) USE Chiriguano UF Adi Abaknon Miri Assigned collective code [phi] Miśing (Philippine (Other)) Aborlan Tagbanwa UF Capul USE Tagbanua Inabaknon Abua Kapul Assigned collective code [nic] Sama Abaknon (Niger-Kordofanian (Other)) Abau Abujhmaria Assigned collective code [paa] Assigned collective code [dra] (Papuan (Other)) (Dravidian (Other)) UF Green River Abulas Abaw Assigned collective code [paa] USE Abo (Cameroon) (Papuan (Other)) Abazin UF Ambulas Assigned collective code [cau] Maprik (Caucasian (Other)) Acadian (Louisiana) Abenaki USE Cajun French Assigned collective code [alg] Acateco (Algonquian (Other)) USE Akatek UF Abnaki Achangua Abia Assigned collective code [sai] USE Aneme Wake (South American (Other)) Abidji Achang Assigned collective code [nic] Assigned collective code [sit] (Niger-Kordofanian (Other)) (Sino-Tibetan (Other)) UF Adidji UF A-ch‘ang Ari (Côte d'Ivoire) Atsang Abigar Ache USE Nuer USE Guayaki Abkhaz [abk] Achi Abnaki Assigned collective code [myn] USE Abenaki (Mayan languages) Abo (Cameroon) UF Cubulco Achi Assigned collective code [bnt] Rabinal Achi (Bantu (Other)) Achinese [ace] UF Abaw UF Atjeh Bo Cameroon Acholi Bon (Cameroon) USE Acoli Abo (Sudan) Achuale USE Toposa USE Achuar MARC Code List for Languages October 2007 page 11 Name Sequence Achuar Afar [aar] Assigned collective code [sai] UF Adaiel (South American Indian Danakil (Other)) Afenmai UF Achuale USE Etsako Achuara Jivaro Afghan -
Prosody and Intonation of Western Cham (PDF)
PROSODY AND INTONATION OF WESTERN CHAM A DISSERTATION SUBMITTED TO THE GRADUATE DIVISION OF THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAI‘I AT MĀNOA IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY IN LINGUISTICS MAY 2011 By Kaori Ueki Dissertation Committee: Victoria B. Anderson, Chairperson Barbara W. Andaya Patricia Donegan Amy J. Schafer Kenneth Rehg © Kaori Ueki 2011 ii ACKNOLWEDGMENTS No man is an island, as the saying goes. I have been fortunate to have the assistance, advice, and support from: My chair, Victoria Anderson and committee members Barbara Andaya, Amy Schafer, Patricia Donegan, and Ken Rehg; Department chair William O’Grady, Katie Drager; Graduate Student Organization Travel Award, which funded in part my 2009 field trip; Christine Kirk-Kuwaye; Osman Ysa, Ahmad Yousos, Ashnavi Ahmad, Abubakar, Emiko Stock, and Marc Brunelle for assistance with all things Cham; Vathany Say, Siti Keo, Hayden Brooks Lukas Wettstein for their hospitality while I was in Phnom Penh; Laurie Durand for copyediting; Diana Stojanovic, Hunter Hatfield, Tsz-Him Tsui, Kanjana Thepboriruk, Karen Huang, Jake Terrell, Toshiaki Furukawa, Yumiko Enyo for various linguistic discussions; Hieu Nguyen and Gina Ho for their hospitality in the last year of the writing, and Hieu for help on Vietnamese place names; Martin Bernstein and Daniel Scher for long distance support; Parents Hiroshi and Yukiko Ueki, and Iori Ueki. iii ABSTRACT This dissertation investigates the prosodic and intonational characteristics of Western Cham (three letter code for International Organization for Standardization’s ISO 639-3 code: [iso=cja]), an Austronesian language in the Chamic sub-group. I examine acoustic variables of prominence at word and postlexical levels: syllable duration, pitch excursion, and mean intensity. -
MARC Code List for Languages
MARC Code List for Languages MARC 21 IBRARY OF CONGRESS ■ 2000 MARC Code List for Languages 2000 Edition Prepared by Network Development and MARC Standards Office Library of Congress LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING DISTRIBUTION SERVICE / WASHINGTON Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data MARC code list for languages / prepared by Network Development and MARC Standards Office, Library of Congress. — 2000 ed. p.cm. Rev. of: USMARC code list for languages. 1996 ed. 1996. ISBN 0-8444-1012-8 1. MARC formats. 2. Language and languages-Code words. I. Library of Congress. Network Development and MARC Standards Office. III. USMARC code list for languages. Z699.35.M28.U79 2000 025.3'16-dc21 00-022744 [Z663.12] Available in the U.S.A. and other countries from: Cataloging Distribution Service, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. 20541-4912 U.S.A. Copyright (c) 2000 by the Library of Congress except within the USA. This publication may be reproduced without permission provided the source is fully acknowledged. This publication will be reissued from time to time as needed to incorporate revisions. CONTENTS INTRODUCTION.v PART I: NAME SEQUENCE.11 PART II: CODE SEQUENCE.153 APPENDIX A: CHANGES.159 MARC Code List for Languages February 2000 page iii February 2000 MARC Code List for Languages ■ Introduction INTRODUCTION This document contains a list of languages and their associated three-character alphabetic codes. The purpose of this list is to allow the designation of the language or languages in MARC records. The list contains 434 discrete codes, of which 54 are used for groups of languages. -
Eastern Indonesia in Austronesian Perspective
Archipel Études interdisciplinaires sur le monde insulindien 90 | 2015 L’Est insulindien Eastern Indonesia in Austronesian Perspective: The Evidence of Relational Terminologies L’Indonésie orientale dans une perspective austronésienne : les preuves par la terminologie des liens de parenté James Fox Electronic version URL: http://journals.openedition.org/archipel/375 DOI: 10.4000/archipel.375 ISSN: 2104-3655 Publisher Association Archipel Printed version Date of publication: 15 October 2015 Number of pages: 189-216 ISBN: 978-2-910513-73-3 ISSN: 0044-8613 Electronic reference James Fox, « Eastern Indonesia in Austronesian Perspective: The Evidence of Relational Terminologies », Archipel [Online], 90 | 2015, Online since 01 May 2017, connection on 19 April 2019. URL : http://journals.openedition.org/archipel/375 ; DOI : 10.4000/archipel.375 Association Archipel JAMES J. FOX1 Eastern Indonesia in Austronesian Perspective: The Evidence of Relational Terminologies The Historical Delineation of “Eastern Indonesia” For the better part of two centuries, researchers, relying on different methods, have attempted to distinguish eastern Indonesia within the wider Austronesian archipelago. Alfred Russel Wallace in his Malay Archipelago (1869) was much concerned with the differences he claimed to perceive between Malay and Alfuru populations in the eastern archipelago. As a consequence, he drew not one but two distinct lines through eastern Indonesia. The irst of these lines, which has become known simply as the ‘Wallace Line’ was labelled the “Division between the Indo-Malayan and the Austro-Malayan Regions”. The second line, which extends much further to the east and separates Sumba, Flores and the Moluccan islands from the rest of the archipelago, represented his “Division between Malayan and Polynesian Races” (See Map in Volume I set between pages 14 and 15). -
Convergence and Divergence in Eastern Cham Language Contact Kenneth Baclawski Jr
Convergence and divergence in Eastern Cham language contact Kenneth Baclawski Jr. [email protected] University of California, Berkeley NWAV-AP5, Brisbane, Australia Claims • Eastern Cham ‘monosyllabization’ involves multiple processes • Some do not seem to be due to language contact • Others may have arisen as follows: • Eastern Cham and Vietnamese have convergent phonetic processes: a) In the environment of a sonorant: Unstressed syllable > homorganic sonorant b) In the environment of an obstruent: Unstressed syllable > homorganic nasal • Eastern Cham phonologizes these processes, resulting in phonological divergence • Contrastive sonorant length • Novel consonant clusters: nasal+stop Slide 2 of 41 Outline 1. Previous literature • What is monosyllabization, and is it a contact effect? 2. Descriptive account of Eastern Cham monosyllabization • Results of a sociolinguistic survey (n=28) 3. Monosyllabization as language contact • Closer look at Vietnamese phonotactics 4. Nasalization as the phonologization of phonetic processes Slide 3 of 41 1. What is monosyllabization? • Eastern Cham (Austronesian: Vietnam) is spoken by about 120,000 people in south-central Vietnam • Likely every speaker is bilingual with Vietnamese, the dominant sociopolitical language (Brunelle 2008) • Eastern Cham is in a quasi-diglossic situation: (Brunelle 2005, 2009a; Brunelle & Phú forthcoming) • H (formal): largely preserves classical Cham script from several centuries ago disyllabic roots • L (colloquial): casual speech, subsequent sound changes monosyllabic roots Proto-Chamic Cham script H L (Thurgood 1999) (Akhăr Thrah) (formal) (colloquial) *măta ‘eye’ ꨠꨓ <ma-ta> măta pta ~ mta ~ nta Slide 4 of 41 1. What is monosyllabization? • Eastern Cham is an SVO language with no bound morphology in the L (colloquial) variety • Historically, many roots were sesquisyllabic: • Presyllable: minor, unstressed, reduced syllable mă.ta • Main syllable: major, stressed, full length syllable • ‘Monosyllabization’: Deletion or reduction of presyllables Slide 5 of 41 1. -
Supplementary Warp Patterned Textiles of the Cham in Vietnam
University of Nebraska - Lincoln DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln Textile Society of America Symposium Proceedings Textile Society of America 2008 Supplementary Warp Patterned Textiles of the Cham in Vietnam Michael C. Howard Simon Fraser University, [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/tsaconf Part of the Art and Design Commons Howard, Michael C., "Supplementary Warp Patterned Textiles of the Cham in Vietnam" (2008). Textile Society of America Symposium Proceedings. 99. https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/tsaconf/99 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Textile Society of America at DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln. It has been accepted for inclusion in Textile Society of America Symposium Proceedings by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln. Supplementary Warp Patterned Textiles of the Cham in Vietnam Michael C. Howard [email protected] The Cham People The Malayo-Polynesian speaking peoples of Vietnam and Cambodia speak languages belonging to the Malayic group of Sundic languages. Sundic speaking peoples lived on the island of Borneo prior to their spreading to adjacent regions. From Borneo they sailed north to Vietnam, west to peninsular Malaysia and Sumatra, and south to Java and Bali. While Sundic speaking groups appear to have migrated to parts of Indonesia as early as 1500 BC, they do not seem to have arrived along the coast of Vietnam until some time around 600 BC. It is during the period 600 BC to 300 BC that Malayic groups, including the ancestors of the Malayo-Polynesian speaking peoples of Vietnam and Cambodia, migrated to eastern Sumatra, Peninsular Malaysia, and Vietnam.