1. Record your own voice on the five Thai tones on syllable“kaa”
(5 times for each tone on citation form)
and normalize the duration of the five Thai tones from your recording by
converting the syllable duration for each tone token into 100%
Observe your own tonal contours and compare them with those displayed on the
website “Thai Sound System Online” (http://pirun.ku.ac.th/~fhumalt)
- In brief, discuss your own production of the five Thai tones.
2. What are “intonation” and “tones”?
Does a tone language such as Thai have intonation?
Give examples with i.p.a. transcriptions in your explanation.