Expressing the opposite: Acoustic cues of Thai verbal irony
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,...
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Formant frequency normalization for studying vowel variation in Thai
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...
On the ambidirectionality of Thai mid-scale predicates: How to get more ‘warm’ by getting less ‘hot’
This paper presents new data on the semantic interaction between gradable predicates and the Thai particle kʰɯ̂n. When the particle composes with rɔ́ːn (hot) and...
Length contrast of high vowels in the Thai language of Sukhothai period: What do the inscriptions say?
In an attempt to study the length distinction of high vowels in Sukhothai Thai, this research compares an analysis of the graphemic system and spelling...
Quantitative and qualitative restrictions on the distribution of lexical tones in Thai
In present-day Thai, contour tones show a more restricted distribution in comparison with level tones that cannot be explained by syllable structure alone. This diachronic...
On acquiring a complex personal reference system: Experimental results from Thai children with autism
Reference of pronouns may be constrained via lexical presuppositions, including marked F-features, implicated presuppositions, and deictic center shifting in certain languages. This paper explores the...
Development of content-based metadata scheme of classical poetry in Thai National Historical Corpus
This paper addresses a conceptual framework and an application of a content-based metadata scheme of classical poetry currently deployed in the Thai National Historical Corpus...
Chindamani and reconstruction of Thai tones in the 17th century
Chindamani, the oldest surviving text about the Thai language, contains a direct but equivocal description of Thai orthography and prosody. Combining careful textual study with findings...
Directionality of tone change
In this paper, I present a theory of tonal change focusing on the directionality of tone change. Drawing on studies on phonetic variation in tones,...