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Tone Sandhi in Lahu Ny |
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| รหัสดีโอไอ | |
| Creator | Jirapat Jangjamras |
| Title | Tone Sandhi in Lahu Ny |
| Contributor | Ratree Wayland |
| Publisher | Faculty of Liberal Arts, Prince of Songkla University |
| Publication Year | 2565 |
| Journal Title | Journal of Liberal Arts, Prince of Songkla University |
| Journal Vol. | 14 |
| Journal No. | 2 |
| Page no. | 141-180 |
| Keyword | tones, tone sandhi, Lahu Nyi, acoustics |
| URL Website | https://so03.tci-thaijo.org/index.php/journal-la/index |
| Website title | Journal of Liberal Arts, Prince of Songkla University |
| ISSN | 2651-1126 |
| Abstract | This study was conducted to determine if tone sandhi exists in Lahu Nyi. Lahu Nyi, a 7-tone language, is one of the Lahu dialects, a member of the Central Loloish branch of the Lolo-Burmese subgroup of Tibeto-Burman languages (Matisoff, 2003). Tone sandhi, a phenomenon occurring in some tone languages, refers to a phonological change from one tone to the other triggered by tone of adajacent words or morphemes. A word list specifically designed to elicit tone sandhi data was presented to research participants in a picture naming task. Five native speakers of Lahu Nyi who were residents of Chiang Doa District, Chiang Mai Province, Thailand, produced the target words in a soundproof room. Their production was transcribed and submitted to a detailed acoustic analysis. The obtained acoustic values such as F0 patterns and duration of the targeted vowel portion of a monosyllabic word and word in targeted context were compared. The results showed that tone sandhi occurs in three experimental conditions: compounding, color naming and causativisation (that is “to feed” is a causative verb derived from a transitive verb “to eat”). In compounding, the pattern of tone change from the citation value to new word is mid to high; in color naming, from mid to high-rising; and in causativisation, from high to low. These results confirmed the presence of tone sandhi in Lahu Nyi and the similarity between Lahu Na and Lahu Nyi dialects. |
