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- Title
Tone production, tone perception and Kammu tonogenesisWe would like to thank Damrong Tayanin for arranging the recording sessions with our subjects and for advice concerning the test material. Thanks also to Marcus Filipsson for writing the F0 algorithm used for analysis and for help with the PSOLA synthesis and to Jan Lanke for statistical advice. The field studies carried out in Laos were made possible by grants from the Erik Philip-Sörensen Foundation and Vetenskapssocieteten i Lund. We would also like to thank the guest editors of this issue and two anonymous reviewers for their careful reading of this paper and many constructive suggestions.
- Authors
Jan-Olof Svantesson; David House
- Abstract
The Northern and Western dialects of the Mon-Khmer language Kammu use fundamental frequency to distinguish words, while the Eastern dialect relies on the contrastive voicing of initial consonants to distinguish words which display an F0 contrast in the other dialects. The production and perception of tones in the three dialects is investigated, using recordings and perception tests. As expected, Northern and Western Kammu speakers do use F0 to distinguish words, as seen both in their production and in perception tests, which show that they could distinguish small F0 differences. In contrast, Eastern Kammu speakers neither produce nor perceive F0 differences at the lexical level. Furthermore, the voiceless and voiced stops in Eastern Kammu cause smaller F0 perturbations in the following vowel than might be expected for a language undergoing tonogenesis. The significance of these results for tonogenesis is discussed, as well as their relevance for the notion of ‘tone language’.
- Subjects
DIALECTS; PHONETICS; MON-Khmer languages; PHONOLOGY; CONSONANTS
- Publication
Phonology, 2006, Vol 23, Issue 2, p309
- ISSN
0952-6757
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/S0952675706000923