Center of Excellence in Southeast Asian Linguistics

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GlobalTIMIT: Acoustic-Phonetic Datasets for the World’s Language

Although the TIMIT acoustic-phonetic dataset was created three decades ago, it remains in wide use, with more than 20000 Google Scholar references, and more than 1000 since 2017. Despite antiquity and relatively small size, inspection of these references shows that it is still used in many research areas: speech recognition,

Tai languages

Tai is the most widespread and best known subgroup of the Kra-Dai family (also known as Tai-Kadai or Kam-Tai). Map 38.1 shows the distribution of the Kra-Dai languages and Map 38.2 shows, in an approximate and oversimplified way, the distribution of the Tai languages (the actual linguistic geography of Tai

Singapore: Nationism and language choice

This research aims to study the language situation in Singapore, both in the scope of linguistic landscape and translation. The study of linguistic landscapes provided us with a broad perspective of the language situation in Singapore. Signs from the government sector and public sector are analyzed through scripts as appearing

Language choice in Thai newspapers and magazines

The Thai language has been used as the main language in the domain of newspapers and magazines in Thailand for a long time. However, global changes have brought more important roles of English as a lingua franca in Southeast Asia and worldwide. English has inevitably become increasingly important in Thai