Sujinat Jitwiriyanont Archives - Center of Excellence in Southeast Asian Linguistics

Quantitative evaluation approach for translation of perceptual soundscape attributes: Initial application to the Thai Language

2022

Translation of perceptual soundscape attributes from one language to another remains a challenging task that requires a high degree of fidelity in both psychoacoustic and psycholinguistic senses across the target population. Due to the inherently subjective nature of human perception, translating soundscape attributes using only small focus group discussions or expert panels could lead

Expressing the opposite: Acoustic cues of Thai verbal irony

2021

The present study examined the acoustic cues of sarcasm in Thai. Four Thai speakers participated in two reading tasks: neutrality and sarcasm reading. Speech rate, F0 mean, F0 range, amplitude mean, amplitude range, F0 slope, and F0 intercept were measured and analyzed. The results indicated that sarcasm was produced at

Trans woman’s voice: A study of correlation between voice onset time in Thai plosive consonants and gender construction

2021

The objectives of this study are 1) to analyze voice onset time in Thai plosive consonants, namely voiced, voiceless unaspirated and voiceless aspirated plosives, produced by trans women with comparison to those of males and females; and 2) to investigate the trans woman’s gender construction in terms of femininity index

Change and stability in the tonal contours of King Rama IX of Thailand, 1959-1997

2021

Studies of change across the lifespan have enabled a more nuanced understanding of segmental sound change, but this method has hardly ever been used in tone change research. This study, one of the first longitudinal studies of tone, investigates the tonal contours of King Rama IX of Thailand across a

Acoustic Variation of (kh) in Fai Mun Village Phuan, Pa Kha Sub-district, Tha Wang Pha District, Nan Province

2020

This paper aims to investigate acoustic variation of (kh) in Fai Mun village Phuan, Pa Kha sub-district, Tha Wang Pha district, Nan province among 3 age groups. The informants are divided into three groups based on their age: the first group is 60 years and above, the second group is

Formant frequency normalization for studying vowel variation in Thai

2019

This study aims to analyze formant frequencies of Thai vowels and suggests vowel formant frequency normalization suitable for acoustic characteristics of Thai vowels. The used method is S-centroid procedure (Watt & Fabricius, 2002), which is an algorithm for a sociophonetic study. The first and second formant frequencies of Thai long

The development of Thai monosyllabic word and picture lists applicable to interactive speech audiometry in preschoolers

2019

Interactive speech audiometry is the assessment of speech comprehension and phonological discrimination through automated means. In order for the performance of such assessments in preschoolers to be successful, the employed list of words and pictures must be easily recognized both linguistically and visually. That is, the children must be able

Tonal and prosodic changes in Mainland Southeast Asia

2018

Mainland Southeast Asia is a linguistic area, in which languages from diverse family converge so that they become typologically homogeneous. Tonal and prosodic features such as lexical tones, register, monosyllabicism, sesquisyllabicity, iambicity figure quite prominently among areal features that set Mainland Southeast Asia from neighboring regions. Adopting both experimental and

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