Martha Ratliff

Biographic Data

ID200778
NAMEMartha Ratliff
GIVEN NAMESMartha
FAMILY NAMERatliff
SIGNATURERATLIFF M
AFFILIATIONSWayne State University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS9
TOTAL CITATIONS26
WORKS AS AUTHOR9
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1991
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2014
H-INDEX2

  • Timing Tonogenesis

    Open AccessMartha RatliffARTICLEProceedings of the Annual Meeting…2014

  • Hmong-Mien Language History

    Open AccessMartha RatliffBOOKHmong-Mien Language History…2010Cited by: 3

    This book presents a new reconstruction of ProtoHmong-Mien, the ancestor language

  • Timing Tonogenesis

    Open AccessMartha RatliffARTICLEProceedings of the Annual Meeting…2002

    Proceedings of the Twenty-Eighth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society: Special Session on Tibeto-Burman and Southeast Asian Linguistics (2002)

  • Phonation types in production of phonological tone

    Open AccessJean E Andruski, Martha RatliffARTICLEJournal of the International…2000Cited by: 21References: 10

    This study looks at the relative importance of phonation type in identifying tones in languages with a 'mixed' pitch/phonation tone system. Green Mong is a tone language with an inventory of 7 contrastive tones and a tonal system that incorporates both fundamental frequency (FO) and phonation type distinctions. The study examines 3 Green Mong tones, which have similar FO contours and are characterized by the distinctive use of breathy, creaky and…

  • Meaningful Tone

    Elizabeth M Riddle, Elizabeth Riddle et al.ARTICLELanguage1995

    This pioneering and innovative morpho-phonological study focuses on the White Hmong language to infer similarities among other Southeast Asian languages. Following U.S. military involvement in Indo-China in 1975, many of the Hmong - an ethnic group originating in Southwestern China and Southeast Asia who were persecuted by the communist organization Pathet Lao - became refugees. A large portion of them originally resettled in the Upper-Midwestern…

  • Report on the Workshop on "Methods of Language Classification and Reconstruction"

    Martha RatliffARTICLEDiachronica1993

    Preview this article: Report on the Workshop on "Methods of Language Classification and Reconstruction": Ann Arbor, Mich., 6-7 November 1992, Page 1 of 1 /docserver/preview/fulltext/dia.10.2.17rat-1.gif

  • Tone Language Type Change in Africa and Asia

    Martha RatliffARTICLEDiachronica1992

    Tone languages can be characterized by the degree to which they realize one of two tone language prototypes defined in terms of tone function. Type A tone languages (usually Asian) employ tone lexically and in minor morphological patterns. Type B tone languages (usually African and Mesoamerican) employ tone to make major morphological distinctions in addition to performing type A functions. For communicative reasons, these functions are necessari…

  • The Development of Nominal/Non-Nominal Class Marking by Tone in Shimen Hmong

    Open AccessMartha RatliffARTICLEProceedings of the Annual Meeting…1991

    Proceedings of the Seventeenth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society: General Session and Parasession on The Grammar of Event Structure (1991), pp. 267-282

  • Cov, the Underspecified Noun, and Syntactic Flexibility in Hmong

    Martha RatliffARTICLEJournal of the American Oriental…1991Cited by: 2

    Hmong (Miao) is a Southeast Asian language characterized by classifier constructions. As a rule, there can be only one classifier per noun phrase. There exists a class of seeming exceptions to this rule, however: when the collective classifier cov is used with a semantically underspecified noun, the unit classifier is retained. I argue that these are not truly exceptions, but that the unit classifier in this environment must be analyzed as the fi…