Burmese has a contrast between voiced and voiceless nasal and lateral sonorants. The
voiced ones lower the pitch and the voiceless ones raise the pitch on the following vowel …

The interaction between consonants and tones is well documented. As consonants
generally influence the quality and pitch of surrounding vowels (Li, 1980), this is not …

This paper is a revised and updated version of a paper on tonogenesis that appeared in
Diachronica in 2002. That paper generated considerable useful feedback, supportive of the …

It is widely known that the fundamental frequency (Fo) at the onset of a vowel is significantly
higher after a voiceless consonant than it is after a voiced consonant (House and Fairbanks …

André-Georges Haudricourt's 1954 paper on Vietnamese tonogenesis has become the
classic account of the mechanisms of the origins of tone. In Haudricourt's model the …

In 1 954, in an article" De l'origine des tones en vietnamien", Haudricourt proposed a theory
as to how a contour tone system could have originated in a Mon-Khmer language (80-81) …

The question of how it is that tones developed in the Thai language looms large in the minds
of many scholars. It is indeed an interesting question that seems not to have a simple …

In describing the development of tones and register in Southeast and East Asia, several
phonetic features need to be considered: various dimensions of pitch (eg height and …

The development of contrastive tones on vowels due to the loss of a voicing distinction on
obstruents in prevocalic position is widely attested and rather well understood. On the other …

It has previously been argued that the glottalization of sonorants should be free to surface
anywhere and that they tend to be preglottalized in the world's languages (Kingston, 1983) …