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Usage Frequency and Articulatory Reduction in Vietnamese Tonogenesis
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Stebbins, Jeff Roesler – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Vietnamese (Vietic, Mon-Khmer, Austroasiatic) is monosyllabic and tonal. Most Mon-Khmer (MK) languages are multisyllabic and atonal. Evidence suggests that Vietnamese (VN) has had its tones less than one millennium, and that other languages (both MK and non-MK) are also acquiring tones, a process called "tonogenesis". Comparing VN's…
Descriptors: Language Variation, Phonetics, Vietnamese, Tone Languages