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Recognizing phrase and utterance as prosodic units in non-tonal dialects of Kammu

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Author

  • Anastasia Karlsson
  • David House
  • Damrong Tayanin

Summary, in English

This paper presents a study of prosodic phras-ing in a non-tonal dialect of Kammu, a Mon-Khmer language spoken in Northern Laos. Prosodic phrasing is seen as correlated with syntactic and informational structures, and the description is made referring to these two lev-els. The material investigated comprises sen-tences of different lengths and syntactic struc-tures, uttered by seven male speakers. It is found that, based on prosodic cues, the distinc-tion between prosodic utterance and prosodic phrase can be made. Prosodic phrase is sig-naled by a sequence of low + high pitch while the right edge of the prosodic utterance gets low pitch. This low terminal is replaced by a high terminal in expressive speech. The study is performed using elicited speech.

Publishing year

2008

Language

English

Pages

89-92

Publication/Series

Proceedings of Fonetik 2008

Document type

Conference paper

Publisher

Department of Linguistics, Gothenburg University

Topic

  • General Language Studies and Linguistics

Keywords

  • Kammu
  • Prosody
  • phrasing

Conference name

FONETIK 2008

Conference date

2008-06-11 - 2008-06-13

Conference place

Gothenburg, Sweden

Status

Published