Inquiry: Khmer Vowels (fwd)

[Yuphaphann Hoonchamlong]

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Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 15:49:08 -1000
From: Christopher Court <court at hawaii.edu>
To: Adelwisa A Weller <alagawel at umich.edu>
Cc: cotseal2000 at umich.edu
Subject: Re: Inquiry: Khmer Vowels (fwd)

dear robert

khmer is usually described as having two "registers", or voice
qulities: normal (or "A-register") and sepulchral (or "O-register"), but
the
fact is that the traditional sepulchral register has almost
disappeared. in phnom
penh dialect the trad. register contrast has gone, but in the colloquial
dialect
a new one (from the change   r > h + breathy voice ) has arisen.  ask for
some examples of "constricted" vowels.

chris court

On Mon, 13 Nov 2000, Adelwisa A Weller wrote:

> fyi.
>
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> Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2000 10:44:50 -0500
> From: Scott McGinnis <smcginnis at nflc.org>
> To: "'councilnews-list at Majordomo.umd.edu'" <councilnews-list at Glue.umd.edu>
> Subject: Inquiry: Khmer Vowels
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> Date:  Fri, 10 Nov 2000 11:56:44 +0000
> From:  "Robert R. Ratcliffe" <ratcliff at fs.tufs.ac.jp>
> Subject:  Khmer vowels
>
> I just heard a talk by our Khmer (Cambodian) professor here, in which
> she described a set of "constricted" or "narrow" vowels. She couldn't
> tell me what these were phonetically, and I couldn't find any reference
> to them (or to Khmer at all) in standard sources like Ladefoged &
> Maddieson or Laver. The description made them sound like ATR vowels, but
> when she pronounced them for me I heard something like creaky or breathy
> voiced vowels. Does anyone know what they are, or can anyone refer me to
> phonetic research on Khmer?
>
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> Robert R. Ratcliffe
> Associate Professor, Arabic and Linguistics,
> Dept. of Linguistics and Information Science
> Tokyo University of Foreign Studies
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> 183-8534 Japan
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