How to (more precisely) analyze vowel variation from acoustic data in Thai
In probing vowel variation as a sociolinguistic phenomenon, we must control for the physiological factors acting upon the realization of vowels, such as age and...
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Linguistic motivations behind tonal contour changes: A case of Bangkok Thai tones
By carefully observing recurrent diachronic patterns, historical phonologists are able to make out generalizations and thus arrive at a better understanding of sound change. In...
Kathoey’s reinterpretation of Thai feminine pronouns and the construction of gender identity
The word kathoey in Thai refers to male-to-female transgenders who uses several aspects of femininity to identify themselves as male-to-female transgender. Because thai does not...
A new look at Pattani Malay initial geminates: a statistical and machine learning approach
Among languages of the world that have geminates, Pattani Malay is famous for having geminates in the word-initial position, whereas most other languages have only...
Dr. Sujinat holds online acoustic phonetics workshop @ UP Diliman
Ratanon Jiamsundutsadee On Monday, July 26, 2021, Assistant Professor Sujinat Jitwiriyanont, Ph.D., hosted an online workshop titled “A Workshop on Acoustic Analysis: Using Praat...
Research assistants needed
ChulaSEAL is recruiting part-time research assistants for a new research project titled “Subgrouping of Tai languages: A linguistic phylogenetic approach,” submitted to the National Research Council of...
“Contour reduction in the high falling tone of Benna Hani” by Cathryn Yang, Yunnan Normal University & SIL International
Department of Linguistics, and Chulalongkorn Southeast Asian Linguistics Research Unit, Faculty of Arts, Chulalongkorn University cordially invite you to a lecture “Contour reduction in the...