Ming Shilu as Evidence of Devoicing of Voiced Obstruents in Siamese

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dc.contributor.authorTangsiriwattanakul, Shinnakrit
dc.date.accessioned2020-12-10T17:21:08Z
dc.date.available2020-12-10T17:21:08Z
dc.date.issued2020-12-07
dc.description.abstractDevoicing of Voiced Obstruents (DVO) was part of a transformative series of sound changes that characterised all the Tai languages: the original voiced stops became either aspirated or unaspirated when devoiced. Although previous studies show that they occurred before the 17th century (Harris, 1992; Pittayawat 2016), their precise dating is still unclear. While Brown (1965) and Chamberlain (1991) hold that DVO occurred prior to 13th Century, Shintani (1974) and Gedney (1989 [1978]) place it around 14th-17th Century. To arrive at the chronology of the sound change, I examine transcriptions of Siamese personal names in The Veritable Records of the Ming Dynasty (Míng Shí Lù – MSL), using Quasi-Early Nanjing Mandarin pronunciation of the Chinese characters as the basis for sorting the correspondence. A careful analysis reveals that the Siamese original voiced stops started to be transcribed by the Chinese original voiceless aspirated stops in 1440s. This became prominent after 1480s, suggesting a completion of DVO by that time. The transcription patterns of the Siamese original voiced stops though imply a gradual transition from original voiced to breathy stops, and eventually to voiceless aspirated stops.
dc.format.extent29 pages
dc.identifier.issn1836-6821
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10524/52474
dc.subjectThai
dc.subjectChinese
dc.subjectHistorical Phonology
dc.subjectPhilology
dc.subjectMing Dynasty
dc.subjectAyutthaya
dc.subject.languagecodetha
dc.subject.languagecodezho
dc.subject.languagecodesuji
dc.titleMing Shilu as Evidence of Devoicing of Voiced Obstruents in Siamese
dc.typeArticle
dc.type.dcmiText
prism.endingpage95
prism.number2
prism.publicationnameJournal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society
prism.startingpage67
prism.volume13

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