This important new study examines in detail a semantic-pragmatic pattern surrounding the basic verb 'acquire' in nearly 30 Southeast Asian languages, concentrating on Lao, Vietnamese, Khmer, Kmhmu, Hm
This comprehensive study of the phonetic properties of the sounds of Chinese dialects is based on instrumental data on the articulatory, acoustic, and physiological properties of these sounds. It cove
Southern Min refers to a group of Chinese dialects spoken mainly in Southeast China and Taiwan. This group occupies a special position in the study of Chinese dialects, not only because of its large p
Mimetic words, also known as ‘sound symbolic words’, ‘ideophones’ or more popularly as ‘onomatopoeia’, constitutes an important subset of the Japanese lexicon, as well as the lexicons of other Asian l
