West-Central Thailand Pwo Karen Phonology

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dc.contributor.authorAudra Phillips
dc.date.accessioned2018-02-21T22:56:04Z
dc.date.available2018-02-21T22:56:04Z
dc.date.issued2018-06-01
dc.description.abstractWest-Central Thailand Pwo Karen (Karenic, Tibeto-Burman) is one of several mutually unintelligible varieties of Pwo Karen found in Myanmar and Thailand. This paper represents an updated version of a phonological description (Phillips 2000). The study includes a comparison of the phonologies of Burmese Eastern Pwo Karen (Hpa-an and Tavoy) and the Thailand Pwo Karen varieties, West-Central Thailand Pwo Karen and Northern Pwo Karen. While the consonant inventories are similar, the vowel inventories exhibit diphthongization of some nasalized vowels. Also, some former nasalized vowels have lost their nasalization. This denasalization is most pronounced in the Burmese Eastern Pwo Karen varieties. As well, these varieties have either lost the two glottalized tones, or are in the process of losing them, while this process has only begun in West-Central Thailand Pwo Karen. In contrast, all six tones are present in Northern Pwo Karen.
dc.format.extent16 pages
dc.identifier.issn1836-6823
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10524/52420
dc.subjectKarenic
dc.subjectPwo Karen
dc.subjectphonology
dc.subjectnasalization
dc.subjectdiphthongization
dc.subjectdenasalization
dc.subject.languagecodekjp
dc.subject.languagecodepww
dc.subject.languagecodepwo
dc.titleWest-Central Thailand Pwo Karen Phonology
dc.typeArticle
dc.type.dcmiText
prism.endingpage62
prism.number1
prism.publicationnameJournal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society
prism.startingpage47
prism.volume11

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