Center of Excellence in Southeast Asian Linguistics

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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, 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

Attitudes towards Thai-English code-switching among Thai speakers in Generation

Despite the increasing importance of English both in Thai society and worldwide, the appropriateness of code-switching practices has been a controversial issue among Thai speakers, especially those in Generation Y whose attitude runs the gamut from acceptance to rejection. Thus, this paper examines Thai speakers in Generation Y’s attitudes towards

Reconstructing the Human Genetic History of Mainland Southeast Asia: Insights from Genome-Wide Data from Thailand and Laos

Thailand and Laos, located in the center of Mainland Southeast Asia (MSEA), harbor diverse ethnolinguistic groups encompassing all five language families of MSEA: Tai-Kadai (TK), Austroasiatic (AA), Sino-Tibetan (ST), Hmong-Mien (HM), and Austronesian (AN). Previous genetic studies of Thai/Lao populations have focused almost exclusively on uniparental markers and there is