On the r>h shift in Kiên Giang Khmer

James Kirby; Giang Lư Đinh

On the r>h shift in Kiên Giang Khmer

James Kirby, Giang Lư Đinh

School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences

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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 the Kiên Giang dialect, the r>h shift is accompanied by pitch lowering, but without changes in aspiration or voice and vowel quality, and consistent with their productions, listeners of this dialect are not sensitive to these cues in perception. We discuss the implications of our findings for Khmer dialectology and possible mechanisms of sound change.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	66-85
Journal	Journal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society
Volume	10
Issue number	2
Publication status	Published - 10 Dec 2017

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Khmer
sound change
rhotics
phonetics

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1 Poster

Relating production and perception of L2 tone
Kirby, J. & Giang, Đ. L., 4 Feb 2021, Second Language Speech Learning: Theoretical and Empirical Progress. Wayland, R. (ed.). Cambridge University Press, p. 249-272
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Relating production and perception of L2 tone
Kirby, J. & Lư Giang, Đ., 19 Jun 2018.
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Incipient tonogenesis in Phnom Penh Khmer: Acoustic and perceptual studies
Kirby, J., Mar 2014, In: Journal of Phonetics. 43, p. 69-85 17 p.
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On the r>h shift in Kiên Giang Khmer: audio recordings
Kirby, J. (Creator) & Lư Giang, Đ. (Creator), Edinburgh DataShare, 27 Jun 2017
DOI: 10.7488/ds/2075
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On the r>h shift in Kiên Giang Khmer: supplementary materials
Kirby, J. (Creator) & Lư Giang, Đ. (Creator), Edinburgh DataShare, 31 Oct 2017
DOI: 10.7488/ds/2242
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On the r>h shift in Kiên Giang Khmer

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Relating production and perception of L2 tone

Relating production and perception of L2 tone

Incipient tonogenesis in Phnom Penh Khmer: Acoustic and perceptual studies

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On the r>h shift in Kiên Giang Khmer: audio recordings

On the r>h shift in Kiên Giang Khmer: supplementary materials

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