DIACHRONIC HIERARCHIES OF TAI TONAL DEVELOPMENT
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Jan 25, 2017
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Tai Tonogenesis Tonal category Tonal split Tonal merger
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This paper discusses the diachronic processes of tonal development of Tai languages. Tonogenesis is treated as the very first step of the arising of tones in proto-Tai. After tone arose, two groups of proto-initials (voiceless-voiced) conditioned primary tonal splits whereas splits conditioned by other pharyngeal features, such as aspiration and preglottalization represent stages of secondary development. Some secondary tonal split patterns result in three-way register splits. However, the bearing capacity of the tone numbers in a language often cause the third register to merge into one of the other two to make two-way register splits always be the mainstream.
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Hanbo, L. (2017). DIACHRONIC HIERARCHIES OF TAI TONAL DEVELOPMENT. PAYAP UNIVERSITY JOURNAL, 26(2), 75–92. https://doi.org/10.14456/pyuj.2016.16
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Haudricourt, André-Georges. (1954). De l’origine des tons en viêtnamien. JA, 242, 161-183.
Haudricourt, André-Georges. (1972). Two-way and Three-way Splitting of Tonal Systems in Some Far Eastern Languages. Translated by Christopher Court. In Jimmy G. Harris & Richard B. Noss (Ed.), Tai Phonetics and Phonology (pp. 58–86). Bangkok: Central Institute of English Language, Mahidol University.
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Li, Fang Kuei. (1977). A Handbook of Comparative Tai. Honolulu: The University Press of Hawaii.
Liang, Min & Zhang Junru. (1996). An Introduction to the Kam-Tai Languages. Beijing: China Social Sciences Publishing House.
Liao, Hanbo & Shen, Ruiqing. (2012). Gedney’s tone box revisited: Evidence from some varieties of Central and Northern Tai. Paper presented at ICSTLL45, Singapore.
Mai, Yun. (2011). Creakiness: A case of the sixth tone in Qingtang Zhuang from Zhongshan, Guangxi. Minority Languages of China, 2011(1), 20-26.
Matisoff, James A. (1973). Tonogenesis in Southeast Asia. In Larry M. Hyman (Ed.), Southern California Occasional Papers in Linguistics 1 (pp. 72-95). LA: University of Southern California.
Norman, Jerry. (1988). Chinese. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Pittayaporn,Pittayawat. (2009). The Phonology of Proto-Tai. Unpublished doctoial dissertation, Cornell University.
Pulleyblank, E. G. .(1962). The consonantal system of Old Chinese. Asia Major, 9, 58-114 and 206-65.
Sagart, Laurent. (1988). Glottalized tones in China and South-East Asia. In D. Bradley, E. J. Henderson & M. Mazaudon (Ed.), Prosodic Analysis and Asian Linguistics: to Honour R. K. Sprigg (pp. 83-93). Canberra: Pacific Linguistics.
Strecker, D. (2009). Tai languages. In B. Comrie (Ed.), The World’s Major Languages (pp. 653-659). Abingdon: Routledge.
Zhang, Junru, Liang Min, Ouyang Jueya, Zheng Yiqing, Li Xulian and Xie Jianyou. (1999). Zhuang Dialect Research. Chengdu: Sichuan Ethnic Publishing House.
Zhu, Xiaonong & Yang Jianfen. 2010. Creaky voice as a feature of [+low]: A tone survey of Hebei dialects. HKUST, 2010(7), 134-147.