Language in the Mainland Southeast Asia Area

Enfield, N. J.

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“…The degree of linguistic diversity in MSEA (i.e. the number of languages per square km) is high (Enfield 2011c), and it is highest in upland areas. Lower language density in lowland areas is likely related in part to geographical factors and their implications for the nature of social networks (see Nettle 1999).…”

Section: Mainland Southeast Asian Languagesmentioning

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Language in the Mainland Southeast Asia Area

Enfield

2017

The Cambridge Handbook of Areal Linguistics

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and Vietnam, along with areas of China south of the Yangzi River. Also sometimes included are the seven states of Northeast India, and-although here the term 'mainland' no longer applies-the islands from Indonesia and Malaysia running southeast to Australia and West Papua (see Map 25.1). There are no exact borders around the MSEA area. Different scholars draw lines in different places. But there is nevertheless a core (Comrie 2007: 45). MSEA is always taken to include Indochina-Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia-together with Thailand, and usually Peninsular Malaysia and part or all of Myanmar (see Map 25.2). But there is often a broader scope of Greater MSEA, moving beyond the core area of Indochina and Thailand, in

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Language in the Mainland Southeast Asia Area

Enfield

2017

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“…) and Sundanese (Kulikov ), as well as further afield as in the Katuic (Austroasiatic) language Pacoh (Watson ). The fluidity and redundancy observed in the phonetic realization of tone in Southeast Asia thus suggests that tone and phonation (and perhaps even voicing more generally) are best regarded as different manifestations of a single contrastive property rather than essentially distinct phenomena (Henderson ; Svantesson ; Mazaudon and Michaud ; Enfield ).…”

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Tone and Phonation in Southeast Asian Languages

Brunelle

Kirby

2016

Language and Linguist. Compass

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Southeast Asia is often considered a quintessential Sprachbund where languages from five different language phyla have been converging typologically for millennia. One of the common features shared by many languages of the area is tone: several major national languages of the region have large tone inventories and complex tone contours. In this paper, we suggest a more fine-grained view. We show that in addition to a large number of atonal languages, the tone languages of the region are actually far more diverse than usually assumed, and employ phonation type contrasts at least as often as pitch. Along the same lines, we argue that concepts such as tone and register, while descriptively useful, can obscure important underlying similarities and impede our understanding of the behavior of phonetic properties, typological regularities, and diachrony. We finally draw the reader's attention to some issues of current interest in the study of tone and phonation in Southeast Asia and describe some technical developments that are likely to allow researchers to address new lines of research in years to come.

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“…Matisoff 2003;Bisang 2006;Enfield 2005Enfield , 2011Comrie 2007): Matisoff 2003;Bisang 2006;Enfield 2005Enfield , 2011Comrie 2007):…”

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