MON-KHMER STUDIES is a journal devoted to the study of Southeast Asian languages, especially those of the Mon-Khmer family. The journal is produced annually and welcomes articles or notes on any aspect of Mon-Khmer languages, or minority Southeast Asian languages, or other language families. Topics of articles may include linguistic description, comparison, bibliography, historical development, sociolinguistics, stylistics, orthographies, or paleographic aspects.
Table of Contents
Editorial Note
Abbreviations
In Memoriam
ARTICLES
George VAN DRIEM
Austroasiatic phylogeny and the Austroasiatic homeland in light of recent population genetic studies
Anh-Thu T. NGUYEN and John C. L. INGRAM
Stress and tone Sandhi in Vietnamese reduplications
PHANINTRA Teeranon
The intrinsic pitch and intrinsic length of high and low vowels in Mon-Khmer language
SUJARITLAK Deepadung and PRAPASRI Dumsa-ard
From Moulmein in Myanmar to Sangkhla Buri in Thailand: An ethnographic study of a Mon village
UMAPORN Sungkaman
Backchannel response in Mon conversation
SOPHANA Srichampa
Vietnamese propaganda reflections from 1945-2000
SOLOT Sirisai
Turn taking management techniques used by Thai TV interviewers
SOMSONGE Burusphat
A comparison of general classifiers in Tai-Kadai languages
SAOWAPA Pornsiripongse
Social capital and non communicable disease prevention: experiences from Thailand
Qin XIAOHANG
Concurrent functions of Hawyiengz Zhuang classifiers
Jamin R. PELKEY
Muji s mirrored merger: correlative redistribution of checked tone classes in a newly defined Burmic cluster
MAYUREE Thawornpat
Gong phonological characteristics
NOTES, REVIEWS, BIBLIOGRAPHY
Notes
Mark J. ALVES
Categories of grammatical Sino-Vietnamese vocabulary
Book Reviews
NARASET Pisipanporn
Yasuyuki SAKAMOTO. The Cambodian-Japanese Dictionary. Tokyo: Institute of the Study of Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa (ILCAA), Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, 2001.
Conference Reports
Paul SIDWELL
The 3rd International Conference of Austroasiatic Linguistics (ICAAL3), 26-28 November 2007, Deccan College Post-Graduate and Research Institute, Pune, India
Amarjiva LOCHAN
The 2nd SSEASR Conference, 24-27 May 2007, ILCRD, Mahidol University, Nakhon Pathom, Thailand
ISARA Choosri
Mon-Khmer linguistics: new developments, 16-17 April, 2007, Room 236, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands