West-Central Thailand Pwo Karen Phonology

dc.contributor.author Audra Phillips
dc.date.accessioned 2018-02-21T22:56:04Z
dc.date.available 2018-02-21T22:56:04Z
dc.date.issued 2018-06-01
dc.description.abstract West-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.extent 16 pages
dc.identifier.issn 1836-6823
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10524/52420
dc.subject Karenic
dc.subject Pwo Karen
dc.subject phonology
dc.subject nasalization
dc.subject diphthongization
dc.subject denasalization
dc.subject.languagecode kjp
dc.subject.languagecode pww
dc.subject.languagecode pwo
dc.title West-Central Thailand Pwo Karen Phonology
dc.type Article
dc.type.dcmi Text
prism.endingpage 62
prism.number 1
prism.publicationname Journal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society
prism.startingpage 47
prism.volume 11
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