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- Svantesson, Jan-Olof, et al.
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Lexikon för ett skriftlöst språk
- 2023
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Ingår i: Nordiska studier i lexikografi : Rapport från 16:e konferensen om lexikografi i Norden Lund 27–29 april 2022 - Rapport från 16:e konferensen om lexikografi i Norden Lund 27–29 april 2022. - 1894-4663 .- 0803-9313 .- 0348-7741 .- 2246-7823. - 9789198679168 - 9789198679151 ; 16, s. 375-387
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- In this article I discuss problems related to the compilation of dictionaries for understudied languages that do not have a generally accepted written form. This task is in most cases undertaken by linguists with the purpose of describing and analyzing alanguage or by missionaries whose ultimate goal is to translate the Bible or other holy scriptures. As a case study, the structure of two different versions of a dictionary for Kammu, a minority language in Northern Laos, is described. One dictionary is primarily intended for linguists and other researchers, and the other one for the speakers of the language.
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- Karlsson, Anastasia, et al.
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Prosodic signaling of information and discourse structure from a typological perspective
- 2015
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Ingår i: Proceedings of the 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences.. - Glasgow, UK : ICPHS. - 9780852619414 - 9780852619421
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- This study investigates the relationship between prosody and information/discourse structure in spontaneous spoken folk tales in the tonal Mon-Khmer language Northern Kammu, a language that behaves as a typical phrase language where available boundary tones are enhanced to mark information structuring. Topic is always placed before Comment by syntactic movement if necessary. There is a prosodic signaling of the boundary between Topic and Comment. Discourse structure is reflected in prosody, and we find higher boundary tones near the boundaries between Discourse Units. The results are dicussed in terms of a typology of spoken discourse.
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- House, David, et al.
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The Phrase-Final Accent in Kammu : Effects of Tone, Focus and Engagement
- 2009
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Ingår i: INTERSPEECH 2009. - BAIXAS : ISCA-INST SPEECH COMMUNICATION ASSOC. ; , s. 2439-2442
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- The phrase-final accent can typically contain a multitude of simultaneous prosodic signals. In this study, aimed at separating the effects of lexical tone from phrase-final intonation, phrase-final accents of two dialects of Kammu were analyzed. Kammu, a Mon-Khmer language spoken primarily in northern Laos, has dialects with lexical tones and dialects with no lexical tones. Both dialects seem to engage the phrase-final accent to simultaneously convey focus, phrase finality, utterance finality, and speaker engagement. Both dialects also show clear evidence of truncation phenomena. These results have implications for our understanding of the interaction between tone, intonation and phrase-finality.
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- House, David, et al.
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On utterance-final intonation in tonal and non-tonal dialects of Kammu
- 2009
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Ingår i: Proceedings of Fonetik 2009. - Department of Linguistics, Stockholm University. ; , s. 78-81
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- In this study we investigate utterance-final intonation in two dialects of Kammu, one tonal and one non-tonal. While the general patterns of utterance-final intonation are similar between the dialects, we do find clear evidence that the lexical tones of the tonal dialect restrict the pitch range and the realization of focus. Speaker engagement can have a strong effect on the utterance-final accent in both dialects.
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- Karlsson, Anastasia, et al.
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Comparison of F0 range in spontaneous speech in Kammu tonal and non-tonal dialects
- 2011
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Ingår i: Proceedings of the ICPhS XVII. - Hong Kong. ; , s. 1026-1029
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- The aim of this study is to investigate whether the occurrence of lexical tones in a language imposes restrictions on its pitch range. Kammu, a Mon-Khmer language spoken in Northern Laos com-prises dialects with and without lexical tones and with no other major phonological differences. We use Kammu spontaneous speech to investigate differences in pitch range in the two dialects. The main finding is that tonal speakers exhibit a narrower pitch range. Thus, even at a high degree of engagement found in spontaneous speech, lexical tones impose restrictions on speakers’ pitch variation.
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- Karlsson, Anastasia, et al.
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Influence of lexical tones on intonation in Kammu
- 2010
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Ingår i: Proceedings of Interspeech 2010. - Makuhari, Japan. ; , s. 1740-1743, s. 1740-1743
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- The aim of this study is to investigate how the presence of lexical tones influences the realization of focal accent and sentence intonation. The language studied is Kammu, a language particularly well suited for the study as it has both tonal and non-tonal dialects. The main finding is that lexical tone exerts an influence on both sentence and focal accent in the tonal dialect to such a strong degree that we can postulate a hierarchy where lexical tone is strongest followed by sentence accent, with focal accent exerting the weakest influence on the F0 contour.
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- Karlsson, Anastasia, et al.
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Intonation Adapts to Lexical Tone: The Case of Kammu
- 2012
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Ingår i: Phonetica. - : Walter de Gruyter GmbH. - 1423-0321 .- 0031-8388. ; 69:1-2, s. 28-47
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In this paper, we investigate how lexical tones interact with intonation, using data from the Austroasiatic language Kammu, one of few languages with two dialects whose only major phonological difference is the presence or absence of lexical tones. Northern (and Western) Kammu have developed tones in connection with the merger of voiceless and voiced initial consonants, while the non-tonal Eastern dialect kept the segmental opposition with no tones. We found the following prosodic hierarchy: (1) lexical tones, (2) phrase-final boundary tone, (3) focus marking. The results strongly suggest that the intonational systems of the two Kammu dialects are basically identical, and that the main differences between the dialects are adaptations of intonation patterns to the lexical tones when the identities of the tones are jeopardized.
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- Karlsson, Anastasia, et al.
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Tone restricts F0 range and variation in Kammu
- 2011
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Ingår i: TMH - QPSR. - Stockholm, Sweden. ; 51, s. 53-55, s. 53-55
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- The aim of this study is to investigate whether the occurrence of lexical tones in a language imposes restrictions on its pitch range. We use data from Kammu, a Mon-Khmer language spoken in Northern Laos, which has one dialect with, and one without, lexical tones. The main finding is that speakers of the tonal dialect have a narrower pitch range, and also a smaller variation in pitch range.
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