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Thai Tones in English Loanwords

Thai Tones in English Loanwords. Alif Silpachai Southern California Undergraduate Linguistics Conference (SCULC ) April 21, 2012. Preview. Compare sources with a native speaker What my sources claim regarding Thai tones in English loanwords What my sources missed What should be added.

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Thai Tones in English Loanwords

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  1. Thai Tones in English Loanwords AlifSilpachai Southern California Undergraduate Linguistics Conference (SCULC) April 21, 2012

  2. Preview • Compare sources with a native speaker • What my sources claim regarding Thai tones in English loanwords • What my sources missed • What should be added

  3. Background: Standard Thai • Standard Thai, or Siamese, a Tai-Kadai language, is a tone language spoken mainly in Thailand. • There are five phonemic tones in Thai.

  4. Where is Thai(Siamese) Spoken? Tai Lue Phuan Vietnamese Burmese Karen Khmer Mon Bangkok Malay

  5. Background: Speaker for this Paper • Me • I am a native speaker of Standard Thai • I can read and write Thai. • I have more English loanwords in my lexicon. • English loanwords have “Thai tones”.

  6. Sources • Gandour (1976) • General tonal patterns in English loanwords. • Kenstowicz & Suchato (2006) • Based on the work of Gandour (1976): an updated version of Gandour’s paper.

  7. Five Phonemic Tones in Thai

  8. Tones in Praat Mid 32 Low 21 Falling 51 High 45 Rising 24

  9. Goals of Study • To see which tones get selected in English loanwords according to my sources. • To explain the tonal rules in these loanwords, using the OT. • To explain why only some tones are used in English loanwords. • To see whether my pronunciation matches the description of my sources. If not, the goal is to suggest ways in which my sources be updated.

  10. Distribution of Tones • C = consonant • V = vowel • VV = long vowel • O = obstruent • p, t, k, b, d, ʔ etc. • S = sonorant • m, n, ŋ, l, w, j etc.

  11. Distribution of Tones in Native Words

  12. Distribution of Tones

  13. Monosyllabic Words

  14. Tones in Monosyllabic Words

  15. OT Analysis This tableau shows that *RISEHIGHLOWFALL/CVS must outrank DON’THAVETONE.

  16. Tones in Monosyllabic Words

  17. OT Analysis The tableau shows that *MIDRISE/CVO must outrank DON’THAVETONE, but does not dominate *RISEHIGHLOWFALL/CVS.

  18. Opacity

  19. Opacity

  20. OT Analysis

  21. Stem Level The tableau shows that *MIDRISE/CVO and MAX-C must dominate *COMPLEXCODA.

  22. Lexical Level This tableau shows that at the lexical level, *COMPLEXCODA and DON’TCHANGETONE must dominate MAX-C and MIDRISE/CVO.

  23. Opacity?

  24. Polysyllabic Words

  25. Tones in Polysyllabic Words

  26. Tones in Polysyllabic Words Kenstowicz & Suchato (2006, page 940)

  27. OT Analysis

  28. Tones in Polysyllabic Words

  29. OT Analysis

  30. The Patterns We Have Learned

  31. MySpeech • Largely agrees with the description of my sources. • But…

  32. My Speech

  33. My Speech

  34. OT Analysis

  35. Summary • Analysis of the Sources • My pronunciation largely agrees with my sources, except for the polysyllabic words terminating in –ia

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