Publication Keyword: sound change

Recurring patterns in tone (chain) shift

Atit Woo2025

This study investigates directional constraints on diachronic tone chain shifts and their applicability to non-chain shifts. Twenty-eight chain shift changes from 12 Sino-Tibetan, Kra-Dai, Austronesian, and...

Revisiting “aberrant” features in Saek: Contact-induced changes and its position within Tai

Atit Woo2024

This study challenges the notion of Saek as an aberrant member of Tai by proposing that certain features previously considered archaic are, in fact, contact-induced...

Establishing relative chronology of Palaung sound changes using Tai loanwords

admin20092021

The sequence in which different sound changes occur in a language can beestablished by identifying feeding/bleeding relationship among the changes. Inmany cases, however, it is...