Publications - 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

Transphonologization of onset voicing: revisiting Northern and Eastern Kmhmu’

2022

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 and tones in a tonal Northern Kmhmu’ dialect spoken in Nan Province, Thailand, and a non-tonal Eastern Kmhmu’ dialect spoken in Vientiane, Laos, from both

The interpretations of scalar implicatures, presuppositions, and implicated presupposition by Thai children with autism

2021

Using the negated universal quantifier not every, the study investigates the interpretations of scalar implicatures, lexical presuppositions, and implicated presup- positions by Thai children with autism spectrum disorders (ASDs; n = 32), compared to their typically-developing (TD) peers (n = 70) and adults (n = 40). The results provide further

Close genetic relationship between Central Thai and Mon people in Thailand revealed by autosomal microsatellites

2021

Central Thailand is home to diverse populations with the central Thai constituting the major group, while the Mon, who migrated from southern Myanmar, are sparsely distributed within the region. A total of 338 individuals of eight central Thai (246 samples) and three Mon populations (92 samples) were newly genotyped. When

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