This paper presents the results of an acoustical investigation of the effects of various
consonant types on the tone of a following vowel in Siamese. In general, it is found that after …

It has recently been suggested for Siamese (or Standard Thai, the national language of
Thailand) that phonological tone be represented as a feature on segments (Hiranburana …

While prosodic systems are typically either tonal or metrical, composite systems including
both tone and metrical structure present yet another, albeit less frequent, possibility (Prince …

In current phonological theory, geminate consonants are distinguished from non-geminates
by a difference in units on the timing tier in an autosegmental representation, other features …

For the past three years I have had the good fortune to work with over sixty Thai university
teachers in basic phonetic research on their own Standard Thai idiolects. This research was …

Fiberscopic films and audio recordings were made of two native speakers of Hindi,
producing# Ci, iCi, iC# utterances where C was one of the four types of stops and affricates …

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 …

Few phonological phenomena have so captured the attention of theorists and continued to
baffle them as the phenomenon of tonal downstep. Downstep is the lowering of the tonal …

ABSTRACT Research on Singapore English has concentrated on segmental rather than
prosodic aspects although it is prosody that contributes most to its distinctive character. The …

The pitch accent in Lekeitio Basque (LB) is realized as H* L on the penult of an underlyingly
accented word or on the final syllable of a derived accented word,(= underlyingly …