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- Title
The change of Standard Thai high tone: an acoustic study and a perceptual experiment.
- Authors
Teeranon, Phanintra
- Abstract
Standard Thai tones are divided into two categories: level tones (mid tone, low tone, and high tone) and contour tones (falling tone and rising tone). The Thai high tone has been found to have changed its shape during the years 1911-2006 (Bradley 1911, Abramson 1962, Tumtavitikul 1992, Morén and Sziga 2006). The shift in tone shape entails a change from mid falling (1911) to high level (1962), and mid rising (2006). This study attempts to show how, acoustically and perceptually, the high tone in Standard Thai is changing from high level to mid rising. The participants for this study are chosen from the following age groups: under-twenty and over-sixty. Each of the two groups consists of male and female. The Praat program, which was used to conduct an acoustic analysis and perceptual experiments, had illustrated from results how the high tone shape in the over-sixty group is of high level, whereas a mid rising in the under-twenty group. The present characteristic of the high tone has been observed to be similar to that of a rising tone; for this reason, the Standard Thai high tone should be categorized as a contour tone.
- Subjects
THAI language; TONE (Phonetics); EXPERIMENTAL phonetics; PHONETICS; LINGUISTICS research; LANGUAGE &; languages
- Publication
SKASE Journal of Theoretical Linguistics, 2007, Vol 4, Issue 3, p1
- ISSN
1336-782X
- Publication type
Article