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The phonetics of Wa: Experimental phonetics, phonology, orthography and sociolinguistics Contents....vii List of figures....x List of tables....xix Introduction....xxv LINGUISTIC PHONETIC DESCRIPTION....xxv SCOPE OF THIS MONOGRAPH....xxvi DIRECTIONS FOR FUTURE RESEARCH....xxvii ABBREVIATIONS....xxvii CONVENTIONS IN STATISTICAL DATA....xxvii 1 Wa linguistic studies....1 1.1 Wa in Mon-Khmer context....1 1.2 Location and numbers of Wa speakers....2 Map of Mon-Khmer branches in Southeast Asia ....2 Map of Wa-speaking areas and speakers in this study....4 1.3 Genealogical classification of Wa languages....7 1.4 Dialects and mutual intelligibility....8 1.5 Standard Wa dialect....8 1.6 Ethnonyms and glossonyms....9 1.7 Sociolinguistic sample of Wa speakers....10 2 Field methods....12 2.1 Selection of consultants....12 2.2 Recording procedure....13 2.3 Language materials used for recording....15 3 Laboratory methods....16 3.1 The larynx....16 3.2 Phonation....20 3.3 Phonation types....20 3.3.1 Measuring phonation types....22 3.4 Laryngography....23 3.4.1 Closed quotient (CQ)....24 3.4.2 Some practical problems with closed quotient....26 3.5 Acoustic analysis....26 4 Wa phonology....28 4.1

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Author

Justin Watkins

Publisher

Pacific Linguistics, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University

Published

2002

Language

EN

ISBN

9780858834866

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Language Learning, Humanities

Updated

2026-03-25