Abstract
Thai has five distinctive tones: mid, low, rising-falling, high, and falling-rising. In this paper, the behavior of Thai tones when they were concatenated with other tones was studied. The target utterances were Thai meaningful and nonsense words with the shape C1VC2, where the C1 was a nasal, the V was /i/ or /i:/, bearing each of the five tones, and C2 was either a nasal or a voiceless stop. The targeted words were spoken by three native speakers of Thai in isolation and in five different tonal contexts, digitally recorded, and measured for the fundamental frequency of the targeted words and the following words. The results showed that the tones of the targeted words normally started at the vowel onset but their offset carried over to the beginnings of the tones of the following words. This carryover effect [previously noted by Xu (1997) for Mandarin tones] occurred more for the targeted words with the final nasals than for the ones with the final stops.
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