Pittayawat Pittayaporn
Biographic Data
| ID | 95928 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Pittayawat Pittayaporn |
| GIVEN NAMES | Pittayawat |
| FAMILY NAME | Pittayaporn |
| SIGNATURE | PITTAYAPORN P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Chulalongkorn University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2754-5548 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Vietnamese Origin of the 12-Year Names in Saek
The emergence of the adversative conjunction /tɛ̀ː/ in Thai
This study investigates the diachronic development of the Thai morpheme /tɛ̀ː/ from an ablative marker to an adversative conjunction. Using the Comparative Method and Invited Inferencing Theory of Semantic Change, we analyze textual data from the 14th–19th centuries. Our findings suggest /tɛ̀ː/ originated as an ablative marker and reveal a two-step change from an ablative preposition to an exclusive particle (14th–16th centuries), then to an adve…
Recurring patterns in tone (chain) shift
This study investigates directional constraints on diachronic tone chain shifts and their applicability to non-chain shifts. Twenty-eight chain shift changes from 12 Sino-Tibetan, Kra-Dai, Austronesian, and Otomanguean languages were compared to a sample of 118 non-chain shifts (including merger) from 54 Asian tone languages. Significant overlap was found: the reported chain shift changes were also the most frequently occurring changes in non-cha…
Tone and voicing in Cao Bằng Tai: Implications for tonal evolution and change
This study examines the phonetic realization of tones and onsets in Cao Bằng Tai. Previous studies of this language indicate that historically voiced plosives remain redundantly cued by closure voicing and/or breathy voice. Our age- and gender-stratified sample of 19 speakers reveals a linguistically homogeneous speech community in which historically voiced plosives are realized as voiceless and lightly aspirated, potentially merging with the asp…
Siamese tones in the late 16th century as reflected in the Sino-Siamese Manual of Translation
This study aims to reconstruct the tone system of late 16th century Siamese by analyzing the Sino-Siamese Manual of Translation . The compilers’ preference for transcribing Siamese tonal categories using Chinese characters suggests that late 16th century Siamese had seven phonemic tones with phonetic characteristics aligned with the broader picture of tonal development in Siamese. This case study serves as an example of how to reconstruct tonal s…
Lexicalization and prosodic structure of Thai compound words
Compound words have been shown to exhibit variability in prominence patterns, with some similar to syntactic phrases and others, monomorphemic words. This study examines the relationship between prosodic structure and degree of lexicalization and suggests that the variability of compound words results from prosodic changes during the diachronic process of lexicalization. The duration ratio and three quantitative lexicalization indicators–i.e., se…
Lao, Thai, and Their Next of Kin: The Peninsular Branch of Southwestern Tai
This article reevaluates the subgrouping of Southwestern Tai languages using early phonological innovations reflected in Old Thai and Old Lao inscriptions. By analyzing four shared consonantal changes, simplification of *khr-, coalescence of *ɓl-, aspiration of *hr- and occlusivization of *x-, the research results propose a “Peninsular Southwestern Tai” subgroup encompassing Thai, Lao, Southern Thai, and most of the so-called “PH” varieties. This…
Information structure and changes in Moklen word-form
In this study, we investigate an apparent discourse-based alternation between monosyllabic and disyllabic word-forms in Moklen, an Austronesian language spoken in Thailand. We explore whether factors of information structure condition the variable elision of the first syllable of certain disyllabic lexemes. Data was obtained through the implementation of a picture-based field stimulus to elicit a range of lexical material within narrow discourse …
Revisiting “aberrant” features in Saek: Contact-induced changes and its position within Tai
This study challenges the notion of Saek as an aberrant member of Tai by proposing that certain features previously considered archaic are, in fact, contact-induced innovations. Specifically, it argues that multiple correspondences involving /j-/ and the alleged split of the Proto-Tai *A1 tone can be traced back to Vietnamese and Lao or Thai influence. Additionally, this paper asserts that Saek is closely related to Fusui, a Northern Tai dialect …
On Becoming Mainland: Unraveling Malay Influence on Moklenic Languages
An exploratory investigation of interactions between syllabic prominence, initial geminates, and phrasal boundaries in Pattani Malay
This study investigates interactions among relative syllabic prominence, initial geminates (IGs), and prosodic boundaries in Pattani Malay (PM) against a background of previous analyses claiming that IGs are moraic and trigger a ‘stress shift’ or the linking of a pitch accent to the initial syllable. We conducted an acoustic study with fourteen PM speakers, producing singleton–IG minimal pairs in naturalistic sentences. Our results show that the …
Laryngeal contrasts in the Tai dialect of Cao Bằng
The Tai dialect spoken in Cao Bằng province, Vietnam, is at an intermediate stage between tonal register split and the accompanying transphonologization of a voicing contrast into a dual-register tone system. While the initial sonorants have completely lost their historical voicing distinction and developed a six-way tonal contrast, the obstruent series still preserves the original voicing contrast, leaving the tonal split incomplete. This paper …
Chindamani and reconstruction of Thai tones in the 17th century
Chindamani, the oldest surviving text about the Thai language, contains a direct but equivocal description of Thai orthography and prosody. Combining careful textual study with findings and analytical tools from Comparative Tai, I argue that 17th century Thai had already established a five-tone system that only differs from present-day Thai in two respects. First, some tones were pronounced differently from their present-day counterparts. While T…
Layers of Chinese Loanwords in Protosouthwestern Tai as Evidence for the Dating of the Spread of Southwestern Tai
The current ethno-linguistic landscape of mainland Southeast Asia is a result of the spread of Tai speakers from southern China. This study examines Chinese loanwords in Proto-Southwestern Tai, the hypothetical ancestor of all modern Southwestern Tai varieties and proposes a dating of the spread of Southwestern Tai languages. By comparing the reconstructed Proto-Southwestern Tai forms with corresponding Chinese forms, four layers of Chinese loanw…
Phonologically-constrained change: The role of the foot in monosyllabization and rhythmic shifts in Mainland Southeast Asia
Changes in word shapes in Mainland Southeast Asia are usually attributed to contact-induced typological convergence. However, little attention has been paid to the role of structural constraints in defining paths of change. In this paper, we describe two distributional gaps in paths of word shape shifts: (1) there are no attested cases of direct shift between trochaic and iambic rhythm and (2) monosyllabization does not occur in trochaic language…
Ratanakul’s Ruam botkhwam wichakan lem 1: Kariang [Collected papers I: Karen]
Laryngeal contrasts in the Tai dialect of Cao Bằng
The Tai dialect spoken in Cao Bằng province, Vietnam, is at an intermediate stage between tonal register split and the accompanying transphonologization of a voicing contrast into a dual-register tone system. While the initial sonorants have completely lost their historical voicing distinction and developed a six-way tonal contrast, the obstruent series still preserves the original voicing contrast, leaving the tonal split incomplete. This paper …
Phonologically-constrained change: The role of the foot in monosyllabization and rhythmic shifts in Mainland Southeast Asia
Changes in word shapes in Mainland Southeast Asia are usually attributed to contact-induced typological convergence. However, little attention has been paid to the role of structural constraints in defining paths of change. In this paper, we describe two distributional gaps in paths of word shape shifts: (1) there are no attested cases of direct shift between trochaic and iambic rhythm and (2) monosyllabization does not occur in trochaic language…
Ratanakul’s Ruam botkhwam wichakan lem 1: Kariang [Collected papers I: Karen]
Layers of Chinese Loanwords in Protosouthwestern Tai as Evidence for the Dating of the Spread of Southwestern Tai
The current ethno-linguistic landscape of mainland Southeast Asia is a result of the spread of Tai speakers from southern China. This study examines Chinese loanwords in Proto-Southwestern Tai, the hypothetical ancestor of all modern Southwestern Tai varieties and proposes a dating of the spread of Southwestern Tai languages. By comparing the reconstructed Proto-Southwestern Tai forms with corresponding Chinese forms, four layers of Chinese loanw…
Chindamani and reconstruction of Thai tones in the 17th century
Chindamani, the oldest surviving text about the Thai language, contains a direct but equivocal description of Thai orthography and prosody. Combining careful textual study with findings and analytical tools from Comparative Tai, I argue that 17th century Thai had already established a five-tone system that only differs from present-day Thai in two respects. First, some tones were pronounced differently from their present-day counterparts. While T…
Laryngeal contrasts in the Tai dialect of Cao Bằng
The Tai dialect spoken in Cao Bằng province, Vietnam, is at an intermediate stage between tonal register split and the accompanying transphonologization of a voicing contrast into a dual-register tone system. While the initial sonorants have completely lost their historical voicing distinction and developed a six-way tonal contrast, the obstruent series still preserves the original voicing contrast, leaving the tonal split incomplete. This paper …
An exploratory investigation of interactions between syllabic prominence, initial geminates, and phrasal boundaries in Pattani Malay
This study investigates interactions among relative syllabic prominence, initial geminates (IGs), and prosodic boundaries in Pattani Malay (PM) against a background of previous analyses claiming that IGs are moraic and trigger a ‘stress shift’ or the linking of a pitch accent to the initial syllable. We conducted an acoustic study with fourteen PM speakers, producing singleton–IG minimal pairs in naturalistic sentences. Our results show that the …
Information structure and changes in Moklen word-form
In this study, we investigate an apparent discourse-based alternation between monosyllabic and disyllabic word-forms in Moklen, an Austronesian language spoken in Thailand. We explore whether factors of information structure condition the variable elision of the first syllable of certain disyllabic lexemes. Data was obtained through the implementation of a picture-based field stimulus to elicit a range of lexical material within narrow discourse …
Revisiting “aberrant” features in Saek: Contact-induced changes and its position within Tai
This study challenges the notion of Saek as an aberrant member of Tai by proposing that certain features previously considered archaic are, in fact, contact-induced innovations. Specifically, it argues that multiple correspondences involving /j-/ and the alleged split of the Proto-Tai *A1 tone can be traced back to Vietnamese and Lao or Thai influence. Additionally, this paper asserts that Saek is closely related to Fusui, a Northern Tai dialect …
On Becoming Mainland: Unraveling Malay Influence on Moklenic Languages
The emergence of the adversative conjunction /tɛ̀ː/ in Thai
This study investigates the diachronic development of the Thai morpheme /tɛ̀ː/ from an ablative marker to an adversative conjunction. Using the Comparative Method and Invited Inferencing Theory of Semantic Change, we analyze textual data from the 14th–19th centuries. Our findings suggest /tɛ̀ː/ originated as an ablative marker and reveal a two-step change from an ablative preposition to an exclusive particle (14th–16th centuries), then to an adve…
Recurring patterns in tone (chain) shift
This study investigates directional constraints on diachronic tone chain shifts and their applicability to non-chain shifts. Twenty-eight chain shift changes from 12 Sino-Tibetan, Kra-Dai, Austronesian, and Otomanguean languages were compared to a sample of 118 non-chain shifts (including merger) from 54 Asian tone languages. Significant overlap was found: the reported chain shift changes were also the most frequently occurring changes in non-cha…
Tone and voicing in Cao Bằng Tai: Implications for tonal evolution and change
This study examines the phonetic realization of tones and onsets in Cao Bằng Tai. Previous studies of this language indicate that historically voiced plosives remain redundantly cued by closure voicing and/or breathy voice. Our age- and gender-stratified sample of 19 speakers reveals a linguistically homogeneous speech community in which historically voiced plosives are realized as voiceless and lightly aspirated, potentially merging with the asp…
Siamese tones in the late 16th century as reflected in the Sino-Siamese Manual of Translation
This study aims to reconstruct the tone system of late 16th century Siamese by analyzing the Sino-Siamese Manual of Translation . The compilers’ preference for transcribing Siamese tonal categories using Chinese characters suggests that late 16th century Siamese had seven phonemic tones with phonetic characteristics aligned with the broader picture of tonal development in Siamese. This case study serves as an example of how to reconstruct tonal s…
Lexicalization and prosodic structure of Thai compound words
Compound words have been shown to exhibit variability in prominence patterns, with some similar to syntactic phrases and others, monomorphemic words. This study examines the relationship between prosodic structure and degree of lexicalization and suggests that the variability of compound words results from prosodic changes during the diachronic process of lexicalization. The duration ratio and three quantitative lexicalization indicators–i.e., se…
Lao, Thai, and Their Next of Kin: The Peninsular Branch of Southwestern Tai
This article reevaluates the subgrouping of Southwestern Tai languages using early phonological innovations reflected in Old Thai and Old Lao inscriptions. By analyzing four shared consonantal changes, simplification of *khr-, coalescence of *ɓl-, aspiration of *hr- and occlusivization of *x-, the research results propose a “Peninsular Southwestern Tai” subgroup encompassing Thai, Lao, Southern Thai, and most of the so-called “PH” varieties. This…
The Vietnamese Origin of the 12-Year Names in Saek
Philosophy (12 works) · Linguistics (11 works) · History (8 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (6 works) · Phonetics and Phonology Research (6 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Chinese history and philosophy (4 works) · Physics (4 works) · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (4 works)