Southeast Asia is often considered a quintessential Sprachbund where languages from five
different language phyla have been converging typologically for millennia. One of the …

Unlike many languages of Southeast Asia, Khmer (Cambodian) is not a tone language.
However, in the colloquial speech of the capital Phnom Penh,/r/is lost in onsets, reportedly …

Languages employ a range of different means for realizing communicative functions,
including word choice, morpho-syntax and prosody. The relative weight of each of these …

Abstract The languages of Mainland South East Asia belong to five language phyla, yet they
are often claimed to constitute a linguistic area. This chapter's primary goal is to illustrate the …

This dissertation investigates the structural aspects of discontinuous noun phrases in Thai, a
construction where nominal modifiers are separated from the noun they modify. These …

This dissertation investigates two phenomena related to discontinuous noun phrases in
Thai: Right-dislocation and Quantifier Float. These phenomena involve a modifying …

There is still much to be learned regarding the nature of the interaction between lexical tone
and utterance-level intonation. Previous studies in individual languages tend to be too …

Mainland Southeast Asia is often viewed as a linguistic area where five different language
phyla–Austroasiatic, Austronesian, Hmong-Mien, Sino-Tibetan and Kra-Dai–have …

Eastern Cham prosodic phrasing and intonational phonology Page 1 Eastern Cham prosodic
phrasing and intonational phonology Marc Brunelle Mutsumi Oi Tabitha Daly University of …

This paper investigates interrogative intonation in North Kyeongsang Korean, a pitch accent
language making use of final particles. A production study shows that yes/no questions do …