The Graduate School and University Center of The City University of New York
The Sound Patterns of Kachok in the Context of Bahnaric and North-Bahnaric Studies
Abstract
dc:description.abstract<p>This dissertation presents a description of the sound patterns of Kachok, Austroasiatic language spoken in northeastern Ratanakiri Province, Cambodia. The language is spoken by approximately 3000 people and is considered endangered (Simons & Fennig, 2018). Kachok is undocumented, and this dissertation is the first attempt to describe the language and its sound patterns. The goals of this dissertation are twofold: to contribute to linguistics and the science of phonetics and phonological typology, as well as increase the body of work on Austro-Asiatic languages, and to create resources for the Kachok language, culture, and people that have the potential to outlive the language itself. This dissertation describes the segmental phonology of Kachok, and then presents a new prosodic model of the sesquisyllable, a phenomenon prevalent in Southeast Asian languages.</p>
Degree
thesis:*- Name thesis:degree_name
- Doctor of Philosophy
- Level thesis:degree_level
- Doctoral
- Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
- Linguistics
- Grantor
- The Graduate School and University Center of The City University of New York
- Year dc:date.available
- 2018
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
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- Olsen, Emily L
- Advisor dc:contributor.advisor
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- Juliette Blevins
- Committee members dc:contributor.committeemember
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- Daniel Kaufman
- Douglas Whalen
Subjects
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dc:identifier.*- Repository record dc:identifier
- https://academicworks.cuny.edu/gc_etds/2868
- OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:academicworks.cuny.edu:gc_etds-3998