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Alphabet & Pronunciation

Vietnamese alphabet, the six tones, diacritics and key pronunciation rules
Thanh điệu: cao độ + kiểu phát âm
Register/phonation types: pitch plus phonation
breathy, creaky, glottalized
Vietnamese tones combine pitch contour with voice quality
Nguồn gốc lịch sử của thanh điệu
Historical tonogenesis
from lost final consonants
Tones arose as older final consonants were lost over centuries
Phương ngữ học: Hà Nội, Huế, Sài Gòn
Dialectology: Hanoi, Hue, Saigon systems compared
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Three major regional systems differ in tones, vowels, and consonants
Chữ Nôm và mối quan hệ với chữ Hán
The Nôm script and its relation to Chinese characters
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Nôm adapted Chinese characters to write native Vietnamese words
Lớp từ vựng Hán Việt
The Sino-Vietnamese vocabulary layer
regular sound correspondences
A large formal vocabulary layer borrowed from Middle Chinese
Việt Nam trong ngữ hệ Nam Á (Môn-Khmer)
Vietnamese within the Austroasiatic (Mon-Khmer) family
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Vietnamese's genetic classification among Southeast Asian languages
Song ngữ chức năng: Hán Việt trang trọng vs từ thuần Việt
Diglossia/register: formal Sino-Vietnamese vs colloquial native words
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Register choice often means choosing between two vocabulary layers
La-tinh hóa thời thuộc địa (Alexandre de Rhodes)
Colonial-era romanization and its history
17th-century missionary work
The basis of today's alphabet was developed by early missionaries
Nhận diện thanh điệu bằng máy tính
Computational tone recognition challenges
diacritic processing
Tone marks pose unique challenges for text and speech processing
Nguồn ngữ liệu cho ngôn ngữ học tiếng Việt
Corpus resources for Vietnamese linguistics
Vietnamese Treebank, VLSP
Digital corpora used to study and process Vietnamese computationally