The Plausibility of Tonal Evolution in the Malay Dialect Spoken in Thailand: Evidence from an Acoustic Study

The F0 values of vowels following voiceless consonants are higher than those of vowels following voiced consonants; high vowels have a higher F0 than low vowels. It has also been found that when high vowels follow voiced consonants, the F0 values decrease. In contrast, low vowels following voiceless...

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Main Author: Phanintra Teeranon
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Crane Publishing Co 2007-12-01
Series:Taiwan Journal of Linguistics
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Online Access:http://tjl.nccu.edu.tw/volume5-2/5.2-2Phanintra.pdf