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

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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 Presentation

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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

o

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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.