Research on speech prosody has shown that higher-level phonological constituents can be
examined directly via their influence on low level phonetic processes (Beckman and …

This thesis provides an initial descriptive analysis of a largely undescribed Austroasiatic
language of Meghalaya, northeast India. Pnar has often been overlooked because of its …

This dissertation explores a purportedly unusual word type known as the sesquisyllable,
which has long been considered characteristic of mainland Southeast Asian languages …

Mainland Southeast Asia (MSEA) is often described as the quintessential Sprachbund, or
language area, in which languages belonging to different language families converge as a …

Mainland Southeast Asia (MSEA), roughly comprising Laos, Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand,
Myanmar, northeast India, southern China, and peninsular Malaysia, has long been …

Recent research has shed new light on the role and characteristics of prosodic domains,
including segmental and tonal feet, in an array of languages. This research extends to …

In this chapter, we address the role of contact in the evolution of tone in mainland Southeast
Asia (MSEA). We present an overview of the phonetic, phonological, and genetic …

The sesquisyllable is generally considered to be a word type consisting of a final heavy
syllable preceded by a light and phonologically reduced first syllable. It is usually thought to …

Based on internal reconstruction, this paper resolves a long-standing problem observed in
Khroskyabs, a West Gyalrongic language (Sino-Tibetan), that seems to sporadically have …

This study examines the impact of Malay on Moklenic dialects spoken by Moklen and Moken
communities to uncover the historical contact setting between Proto-Moklenic and Malay. It …