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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...

Transphonologization of onset voicing: revisiting Northern and Eastern Kmhmu’

Atit Woo20222023

Phonation and vowel quality are often thought to play a vital role at the initial stage of tonogenesis. This paper investigates the production of voicing...

Directionality of tone change

admin20072021

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,...