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

Kammu in northern Laos

Eastern KammuNorthern Kammu

Western Kammu

Phongsali

Luang Namtha

Bôkaeo

Xainya-buri

Phrabang

Bôlikhamxai

Huaphan

Xiang Khwang

Viang Chan province

Viang Chan prefecture

Udomxai

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

Northern Kammu

Eastern Kammu

táaŋ

tàaŋ

…..___

___…..

Production experiment200

Northern Kammuspeaker

Eastern Kammuspeaker

Average tone curves normalized for duration

Perception experiment

Number of 'eagle' responses Eastern Kammu listeners

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1 2 3 4 5 F0

Number of 'eagle' responses Northern Kammu listeners

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1 2 3 4 5 F0

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

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?

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)

cét píi

(seven years)

cet pii

yòŋ kə"ə yɔ̀"h mə$h

yoŋ gəə yɔ̀h məho

(Father he went where?)

yòŋ kə"ə yɔ̀"h mə$h

yoŋ gəə yɔ̀h məho

(Father he went where?)

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.

Tone and intonation in Kammu

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