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Tonogenesis in Kammu (or) When do tones leave the segment?

Tonogenesis in Kammu (or) When do tones leave the segment?. Jan-Olof Svantesson (Lund) David House (KTH). Kammu in northern Laos. Ban Tapaen, Laos, 1996. Ban Tapaen, Laos, 1996. Words illustrating Kammu tonogenesis. E Kammu N Kammu W Kammu taaŋ táaŋ táaŋ ‘pack’

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Tonogenesis in Kammu (or) When do tones leave the segment?

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  1. Tonogenesis in Kammu (or)When do tones leave the segment? Jan-Olof Svantesson (Lund) David House (KTH)

  2. Kammu in northern Laos

  3. Ban Tapaen, Laos, 1996

  4. Ban Tapaen, Laos, 1996

  5. Words illustrating Kammu tonogenesis E Kammu N Kammu W Kammu taaŋ táaŋ táaŋ ‘pack’ daaŋ tàaŋ thàaŋ ‘lizard’ thaaŋ tháaŋ tháaŋ ‘to clear’ raaŋ ráaŋ ráaŋ ‘tooth’ raaŋ ràaŋ ràaŋ ‘flower’ o

  6. Northern Kammu táaŋ tàaŋ Eastern Kammu taaŋ daaŋ

  7. Production experiment Northern Kammu speaker Eastern Kammu speaker Average tone curves normalized for duration

  8. Perception experiment

  9. Is Kammu a tone language? • Eastern Kammu has no lexical tones • Northern Kammu • Tones still belong to the initial consonants • Tone system • maximally simple (two level tones) • minimally contrastive (acoustically similar) • Tonogenesis is an ongoing process

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