Author

Penporn Tanvattananun

Title

The Change of Unaspirated Stops in Chiengmai Dialect and Some Social Variables / Penporn Tanvattananun

Date

1982

Abstract

This thesis is a study of the change in the pronunciation of the unaspirated stops /p, t, c, k/ in the Chieng Mai dialect. The study covers two types of communities: a rural community in Sansaai District and an urban community in Muang District. The study also aims at establishing correlations between this sound change and 4 social variables; namely, age, sex, residency and exposure to outsiders. The study reveals that those unspirated stops /p,t,c,k/ in the Chieng Mai dialect which have developed from the Proto-Tai voiceless consonants /*p, *t, *c, *k/ are not changing. Those which manifest change are the unaspirated stops which have developed from the Proto-Tai voiced consonants /*b, *d, *j *g/. It is evident that there are two sets of sounds of these phonemes : the unaspirated set [p, t, c, k,] and the aspirated set [ph, th, ch, kh]. There is a difference in the degree of change in these initial consonant sounds. The [t] sound shows the highest degree of change while [c] shows the lowest degree of change. There are correlations between this on-going change and all the social variables selected except sex. These correlations can be concluded as follows: 1. The change tends to occur more with the younger group (15-17 years) than the older group (45 years onward). 2. Speakers in the urban community exhibit greater change than those in the rural community. 3. Speakers who experience greater exposure to outsiders show a higher rate of change than those with little or no exposure.

3. คนที่ได้รับอิทธิพลจากภายนอกมาจะมีการเปลี่ยนแปลงมากกว่าคนที่ได้รับอิทธิพลจากภายนอกน้อยหรือไม่ได้รับเลย

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Typescript (photocopy)

Thesis (M.A.)--Chulalongkorn University, 1982

Peansiri Vongvipanond, advisor