Pekon Kayan phonology

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Issue Date: 
2007
Date Created: 
2001 to 2007
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Department of Linguistics, Payap University
Publisher Place: 
Chiang Mai, Thailand
Extent: 
i, 60 pages
Abstract: 
The book describes the phonology of Kayan spoken in Pekon. There is a description of the consonants, vowels and tones, along with word and syllable structures and distributions of segmentals and suprasegmentals. A text and glossary are included.
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Published
Table of Contents: 
1 INTRODUCTION -- 1.1 LINGUISTIC BACKGROUND OF KAYAN -- 1.2 DATA COLLECTION & RESEARCH DESIGN -- 2 CONSONANTS -- 2.1 THE CONSONANT INVENTORY OF KAYAN -- 2.2 PLOSIVES -- 2.3 NASALS -- 2.4 FRICATIVES -- 2.5 LATERALS AND RHOTICS-- 2.6 APPROXIMANTS -- 2.7 EVIDENCE FOR CONSONANT CONTRASTS -- 3 VOWELS -- 3.1 THE VOWEL INVENTORY OF KAYAN -- 3.2 MONOPHTHONGS -- 3.3 DIPHTHONGS -- 3.4 NASALITY -- 3.5 EVIDENCE FOR VOWEL CONTRASTS -- 4 TONES -- 5 PHONOTACTICS -- 5.1 THE WORD -- 5.2 THE SYLLABLE -- 5.3 DISTRIBUTION OF PHONES -- 6 CONCLUSIONS AND FURTHER RESEARCH -- REFERENCES -- APPENDIX A: TEXT – “BARRY THE BAT” -- APPENDIX B: PEKON KAYAN --GLOSSARY
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Myanmar
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Entry Number: 
38915