Iu Mien Tone Change in Real Time: A Restudy Of L-Thongkum (1988)
Iu Mien Tone Change in Real Time: A Restudy Of L-Thongkum (1988)
dc.contributor.author | Yang, Cathryn | |
dc.contributor.author | Engelkemeir, Jennifer | |
dc.contributor.author | Arisawa, T. Daniel | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2024-04-30T22:05:49Z | |
dc.date.available | 2024-04-30T22:05:49Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2024 | |
dc.description.abstract | This study investigates tone changes in Iu Mien, a Hmong-Mien language with two complex contour tones: high rising-falling (T3) and low rising-falling (T4). L-Thongkum (1988) observed younger speakers producing rising variants of T3 and T4, which she attributed to Thai contact. This study replicates L-Thongkum’s study 34 years later to observe tone changes in real time and examine the potential role of peak delay, a phonetic bias resulting in a later f0 peak. 40 speakers (ages 12-84) produced T3 and T4 monosyllables in isolation and in a carrier phrase. f0 was modeled using Generalized Additive Mixed Modeling (GAMM). Results confirm incremental change toward rising variants of T3 and T4. Older speakers showed peak delay (with more of a rising contour) under conditions of shorter duration and preceding low tone. Critically, younger speakers produced peak-delayed, rising variants in all conditions, indicating generalization of the rising contour. While language contact may have initiated the changes, a phonetic bias toward peak delay generated the seeds of potential change. The change from rising-falling > rising aligns with apparent-time studies in other Asian languages, suggesting this may be a crosslinguistically unidirectional pathway. | |
dc.format.extent | 18 pages | |
dc.identifier.issn | 1836-6821 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10524/52523 | |
dc.subject | tone change | |
dc.subject | real time | |
dc.subject | peak delay | |
dc.subject.languagecode | ium | |
dc.subject.languagecode | tha | |
dc.title | Iu Mien Tone Change in Real Time: A Restudy Of L-Thongkum (1988) | |
dc.type | Research article | |
dc.type.dcmi | Text | |
dspace.entity.type | ||
prism.endingpage | 80 | |
prism.number | 1 | |
prism.publicationname | Journal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society | |
prism.startingpage | 63 | |
prism.volume | 17 |
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