This article synthesizes a review of the literature on tone sandhi in Chinese and Tai languages. From the synthesis of results from a compilation of linguistic research studies, it was found that the tone sandhi in Chinese and Tai languages... ​​is divided into two types: left-dominant and right-dominant with clearly different patterns of tone sandhi. The tone sandhi in the left-dominant is related with the extension of the tonal to the right. The tone sandhi in the right-dominant has to do

The objectives of this research are to compare tonal realizations in Yong in citation form and connected speech and between 2 age-groups as well as to prove whether there is tone sandhi in Yong as proposed by Ruengdet Pankhuenkhat (1978). Six female... that the Lamphun variety of Northern Thai is exerting influence on Lamphun Yong. Tone sandhi in two syllabic words is found only when the second syllable is tone 2 and the first is tone 3. Tonal variation found in this research shows that Lamphun Yong is different

equation to analyze tones (Andruski & Costello, 2004). In addition, the findings reflected gender variation of S. Pa-O tones and tendency of tone sandhi in progress in N. Pa-O....This research aims to study citation tones and tonal coarticulation in Northern Pa-O (N. Pa-O) and Southern Pa-O (S. Pa-O) continuous speech. The data was collected from 20 speakers (10 speakers from each dialect). The test words for citation tones