Jerold Edmondson

The University of Texas at Arlington | UTA · Department of Linguistics & TESOL

The Bai language ( ) is spoken by approximately 1.6 million people in northwest Yunnan Province, China. Of the 25 minority languages spoken in Yunnan, where 33% of the population are ethnic minorities and 67% are Han Chinese, the Bai ethnic minority is second in population only to the Yi (Wiersma 1990, 2003; 2010 census). Bai is classified as a Tib...

The Nuosu (Nosu) Yi language, or Northern Yi (北部彝语), is spoken by approximately two million people in southern Sichuan Province and northern Yunnan Province, China, the majority of whom are monolingual. Yi is a member of the Yi Branch of the Lolo-Burmese subgroup of the Tibeto-Burman family (Benedict 1972/2009, Bradley 1979), which includes some 50...

This volume is the latest in a series of masterfully produced volumes by Tom Hudak using unpublished data left by William J. Gedney. In fact, Gedney had talked with his colleagues (including myself) about his data, saying they were stored in his basement in Ann Arbor and that someone would need to publish them. Certainly no one could, at the time,...

Kra is a language group related to Tai and Kam-Sui, which has been research only by a few investigators. Also some of the Kra languages are highly endangered. This paper adds data from a newly discovered group of Red Gelao speakers and uses the method of phylogenetic estimation to the subgrouping of Kra and compares it to the proposal by Ostapirat...

Hybrid is a very “in” term nowadays. In this paper I begin by telling the story of how Mexican laborers have used Spanish letter strings to record English just as they heard it, writing, e.g. juelluliv for ‘where you live?’ This kind of writing is an example of a hybrid alphabet. I then turn to Asia where hybrid alphabets have been in use for 2000...

Part 1: Overview Chapters Part 2: Tai Languages: Overviews and Resources Part 3: Tai Languages: Special Topics Part 4: Grammaticalization and Historical Syntax Part 5: Kam-Sui Languages Part 6: Hlai (Li) and Kra (Kadai) Languages.

The languages of Vietnam reflect the historical migrations of prehistoric people groups as well as successive waves of cultural influence by world civilizations over many thousands of years. In addition to cultural spread, certain of Vietnam's ethnicities also constitutes social mosaics in the sense of Renfrew (2000), growing and flourishing in pla...

Past research on the dichotomy of language rhythm classes (stress- vs. syllable-timing) has typically been performed on constructed speech data, e.g. "The North Wind and the Sun" text. Our research goes beyond the previously established speech rhythm studies by combining: (1) a data set of 175 minutes of audio from large corpora of natural English...

The laryngeal articulator, consisting of the glottal mechanism, the supraglottic tube, the pharyngeal/ epiglottal mechanism, and including three levels of folds: the vocal folds, the ventricular folds, and the aryepiglottic folds, is shown to be responsible for the generation of multiple source vibrations and for the complex modification of the pha...

The standard method of describing phonation for tone, vocal register, stress and other linguistic categories relies on the ‘continuum hypothesis’ that linguistic sounds are produced by means of glottal states determined by the aperture between the arytenoid cartilages, the endpoints of the voiceless–voiced continuum being ‘open glottis’ and ‘closed...

3 This paper argues that there are phonetic articulations describable as glottal constriction, epiglottal constriction, and epiglottal articulation with lingual pharyngealization, and that these sound types are found in the Amis language of Taiwan. We shall also show that the glottal, epiglottal, and pharyngeal locations for stop and fricative arti...

L'A. analyse les phenomenes phonologiques de nasalisation et d'accentuation dans une langue otomangue du Mexique : le palantla chinanteque. Cette langue possede deux degres de syllabes nasalisees en contraste avec les syllabes orales et deux types d'accents de mot produisant soit une syllabe balistique, soit une syllabe controlee

This paper reports on indications of the nature of the neurolinguistic connection between phonological and lexical components of language, based on a case of phonemic jargon aphasia. Following bihemispheric embolic infarcts, the subject presented with severe fluent aphasia, characterized by fluent strings of phonemes, with virtually no intelligible...

A within-subjects study of the affective characteristics of voice was carried out in patients undergoing a Wada Test (WT). All patients became densely aphasic after the left-sided WT and lost the ability to impart affect into speech after the right-sided WT. The affective changes in voice induced by the Wada test were acoustically analyzed by compu...

The loss of affective prosody from focal right-brain damage was investigated in 8 right-handed speakers of Taiwanese (mean age 61 yrs) by determining the acoustical profiles associated with the loss, using computer analysis. Also, 8 nonhospitalized Taiwanese (mean age 58 yrs) were asked whether they could detect affective voice flattening in the br...

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1.0 Introduction. This paper will range over three historical aspects of The Power of Language topic and over a time frame on the order of forty thousand years. The first theme to be considered will concern the power of language (language in the genes) that can tell us the story of the very remote past of Tai migration and settlement from a place i...

This paper compares two minority languages from northern Vietnam about which very little is known. The aim here is preliminary documentation of some of the very basic features. The Kháng data are based on my own field study and those from Ksingmul and Bumang are taken from sources which are in Russian and Chinese respectively. I have included a rel...