Essays about: "Aslian languages"

Found 3 essays containing the words Aslian languages.

  1. 1. The language of vision in four Aslian speech communities : an introductory investigation of basic vision verbs

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för lingvistik och kognitiv semiotik; Lunds universitet/Allmän språkvetenskap

    Author : Sonja Holmer; [2021]
    Keywords : language of vision; hierarchy of the senses; sensory linguistics; universal perception; language of perception; Aslian languages; Jahai; Ceq Wong; Semelai; Semaq Beri; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : Vision is often considered to top the hierarchy of the senses, reflected for example in the high relative frequency of vision verbs, in comparison to other perception verbs. Results from some previous studies, however, have shown that there is greater cross-linguistic variation concerning perception language than previously thought, emphasising other sense modalities than vision. READ MORE

  3. 2. Signaling discourse structure: the marking of discourse topic boundaries in Jahai and Mah Meri spontaneous narratives

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Allmän språkvetenskap

    Author : Otto Ewald; [2013]
    Keywords : Mah Meri; Jahai; prosody; discourse topic; discourse structure; Austroasiatic; Aslian; particles; pitch; duration; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : This study has examined how the right edge of a discourse topic is signaled through the use of F0, duration, and particles in the two Aslian languages Jahai and Mah Meri. The goals of this study were to contribute to the knowledge of these languages, compare them to the related Kammu language in the search for similarities that could be applied to Austroasiatic as a whole, and to explore what kind of analysis is possible with a material not collected for prosodic research. READ MORE

  4. 3. Northern Aslian Linguistic Prehistory: Tracing the Effects of Contact

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Masterprogram: Språk och språkvetenskap; Lunds universitet/Allmän språkvetenskap

    Author : Joanne Yager; [2013]
    Keywords : Aslian languages; language classification; linguistic contact; phylogenetic networks; Neighbor-Net; basic vocabulary; Menriq Rual; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : This study focuses on the genealogical and contact-based connections among the Northern Aslian varieties, which form one of three subgroups of the Aslian subbranch of the Austroasiatic stock, spoken in Peninsular Malaysia and southern Thailand. The complex patterns of contact that exist among the speakers of the closely related Northern Aslian varieties coupled with a scarcity of data and a lack of written history give rise to difficulties in the representation of the historical relationships among these varieties using traditional models of language classification. READ MORE