tone and intonation in kammu
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Tone and intonation in Kammu. David House (KTH) Jan-Olof Svantesson (Lund). Contribution to: Word Accents and Tones in Sentence Perspective A symposium in conjunction with the 60th birthday of Professor Gösta Bruce. Kammu in northern Laos. Words illustrating Kammu tonogenesis. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Tone and intonation in Kammu
David House (KTH)
Jan-Olof Svantesson (Lund)
Contribution to:
Word Accents and Tones in Sentence PerspectiveA symposium in conjunction with the 60th birthday of Professor Gösta Bruce
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Kammu in northern Laos
Eastern KammuNorthern Kammu
Western Kammu
Phongsali
Luang Namtha
Bôkaeo
Xainya-buri
Phrabang
Bôlikhamxai
Huaphan
Luang
Xiang Khwang
Viang Chan province
Viang Chan prefecture
Udomxai
E457
N123
E1
N4
E23
WE6
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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’
Words illustrating Kammu tonogenesis
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Northern Kammu
Eastern Kammu
daaŋ
taaŋ
táaŋ
tàaŋ
…..___
___…..
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Production experiment200
175
150
125
TRK
LHHz
200
175
150
125
TRK
LHHz
Northern Kammuspeaker
Eastern Kammuspeaker
Average tone curves normalized for duration
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Perception experiment
Number of 'eagle' responses Eastern Kammu listeners
0123456
1 2 3 4 5 F0
E467
E2
E3
Number of 'eagle' responses Northern Kammu listeners
0123456
1 2 3 4 5 F0
N2
N4
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Intonation in Kammu
New Project: (Sift) Separating intonation from tone – Phrasing
– Focussing
– Questions
– Vocative chant
In elicited and spontaneous speech
Anastasia Karlsson Funding from The Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Foundation
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Theoretical issues
• Can we find evidence that the tonal and non-tonal dialects have the same underlying intonation system?
• If so, how do tones affect and constrain the intonation system?
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Northern KammuSpeaker (tonal)
nàa màan pɨan cét píi
màan pɨan cét píi(pregnant for aboutseven years)` `
…bɨan cet pii …maan gəə gniʔ bɨan cet pii
Eastern KammuSpeaker (non-tonal)
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cét píi
cét píi
Northern KammuSpeaker (tonal)
Eastern KammuSpeaker (non-tonal)
(seven years)
cet pii
cet pii
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yòŋ kə"ə yɔ̀"h mə$h
yoŋ gəə yɔ̀h məho
(Father he went where?)
Northern KammuSpeaker (tonal)
Eastern KammuSpeaker (non-tonal)
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yòŋ
yòŋ kə"ə yɔ̀"h mə$h
Northern KammuSpeaker (tonal)
Eastern KammuSpeaker (non-tonal)
yoŋ gəə yɔ̀h məho
(Father he went where?)
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Selected references
Gandour, Jackson T., Eva Gårding & Kristina Lindell (1978). Tones in Northern Kammu: a perceptual investigation. Acta Orientalia 39. 181-189.
Gårding, Eva & Kristina Lindell (1977). Tones in Northern Kammu: a phonetic investigation. Acta Orientalia 38. 321-332.
House, David (1990). Tonal perception in speech. Lund: Lund University Press.
Svantesson, Jan-Olof (1983). Kammu phonology and morphology. Lund: Gleerup.
Svantesson, Jan-Olof (1989). Tonogenetic mechanisms in Northern Mon-Khmer. Phonetica 46. 60-79.
Svantesson, Jan-Olof & David House (2006). Tone production, tone perception and Kammu tonogenesis. Phonology 23. 309-333.