Abstract
This study represents the first acoustic analysis of the seven-tone system of Lahu Nyi, a dialect of Lahu, a Tibeto-Burman language spoken in Muang Na
subdistrict, Chiang Dao district, Chiang Mai province, Thailand. One male and two female native speakers produced the seven tones in isolation and in a sentence context. Pitch contour analysis showed five long tones in open syllables and two short tones in syllables closed with a glottal stop. Low tones are slightly breathy. Pitch contour modification was observed in the sentence context produced by the
male speaker where a high-mid falling tone exhibits a rising contour in the context of a following high-mid falling tone.
subdistrict, Chiang Dao district, Chiang Mai province, Thailand. One male and two female native speakers produced the seven tones in isolation and in a sentence context. Pitch contour analysis showed five long tones in open syllables and two short tones in syllables closed with a glottal stop. Low tones are slightly breathy. Pitch contour modification was observed in the sentence context produced by the
male speaker where a high-mid falling tone exhibits a rising contour in the context of a following high-mid falling tone.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences |
| Editors | Sasha Calhoun, Paola Escudero, Marija Tabain, Paul Warren |
| Place of Publication | Canberra |
| Publisher | Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association Inc. |
| Pages | 3882-3886 |
| Number of pages | 5 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9780646800691 |
| Publication status | Published - Aug 2019 |
Keywords
- Lahu Nyi
- tone
- F0 patterns
- glottalization
- duration