Category : Research Spotlight

It is well-established that consonant duration in certain languages, such as Italian and Japanese, is contrastive, with consonant geminates primarily occurring in medial positions. However,...

Speakers of Thai may acknowledge the fact that the language boasts a generous repertoire of personal reference terms, comprising not only over 50 different personal...

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...

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...

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...

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...