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THAI TONE VARIANTS AND THE LANGUAGE TEACHERS
Author(s) -
Palmer Adrian
Publication year - 1969
Publication title -
language learning
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.882
H-Index - 103
eISSN - 1467-9922
pISSN - 0023-8333
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-1770.1969.tb00469.x
Subject(s) - tone (literature) , confusion , psychology , variation (astronomy) , linguistics , first language , cognitive psychology , philosophy , physics , astrophysics , psychoanalysis
It is common knowledge to teachers of tone languages that the phonetic shapes of tones vary in different phonological environments. This paper, based upon a limited instrumental study of Thai, provides a technique by which a teacher can identify the environmental conditions under which confusion is likely to occur, Two separate methods of charting are illustrated. One shows individual tone variation, and the other shows the effect of a specified tonal environment on all five tones. Both kinds of charts are useful in teaching Thai tones.