On the r>h Shift in Kiên Giang Khmer

dc.contributor.author	Kirby, James
dc.contributor.author	Đinh, Lư Giang
dc.date.accessioned	2017-12-06T21:52:56Z
dc.date.available	2017-12-06T21:52:56Z
dc.date.issued	2017-12-01
dc.description.abstract	This paper presents an acoustic and perceptual study of the r>h shift in the variety of Khmer spoken in Giồng Riềng district, Kiên Giang province, Vietnam. In Phnom Penh Khmer, /r/ is realized as [h] in syllable onsets and onset clusters, and accompanied by lowered pitch, breathiness, and in some cases a change in the quality of the following vowel. In Kiên Giang Khmer, the r>h shift is accompanied by pitch lowering, but without changes in aspiration or vowel quality, and spectral measures did not indicate substantial differences in voice quality. Consistent with their productions, users of this dialect appear to rely solely on differences pitch to identify these lexical items. We discuss the implications of our findings for Khmer dialectology, mechanisms of sound change, and variation in the realization of rhotics more generally.
dc.format.extent	24 pages
dc.identifier.issn	1836-6821
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10524/52414
dc.subject	Khmer
dc.subject	rhotics
dc.subject	sound change
dc.subject	tone
dc.subject.languagecode	khm
dc.title	On the r>h Shift in Kiên Giang Khmer
dc.type	Article
dc.type.dcmi	Text
prism.endingpage	89
prism.number	2
prism.publicationname	Journal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society
prism.startingpage	66
prism.volume	10

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