Tạ Thành Tấn

Publications

(2025). Ha, Tran Nguyen Ngan, Tạ, Thành Tấn, and Nguyen Minh Ngoc. An Investigation into the Effect of Textbook Adaptationon Secondary School Students’ Language Proficiency. HNUE Journal of Science Educational Science (2024): 89-98.

(2025). Tạ, Thành Tấn. Hệ thống thanh điệu thổ ngữ Nghi Ân (Vinh - Nghệ An). Tạp chí Ngôn ngữ, 12:59-68.

(2025). Dinh, Lư Giang, Marc Brunelle, and Tạ, Thành Tấn. Relating production and perception in two Raglai dialects at different stages of registergenesis. Phonetica 82.1 (2025): 87-110.

(2024). Brunelle, M., Leb, K., Tạ, Thành Tấn Dinh, L. G. Voicing or register in Jarai dialects? Implications for the reconstruction of Proto-Chamic and for registergenesis. Journal of the International Phonetic Association, 1-42.

(2024). Tạ, Thành Tấn. Ngôn ngữ Gen Z và các vấn đề đặt ra với giảng dạy tiếng Việt trong chương trình Ngữ văn trung học phổ thông [Gen Z’s language and problems posed to the teaching of Vietnamese language and literature in high school]. Kỷ yếu Hội thảo khoa học quốc gia Bước đầu bàn về nội dung quản lý Nhà nước về tiếng Việt [Proceedings of the National Conference on Vietnamese Government’s Policies on Vietnamese]. Hà Nội: Bộ Giáo dục và Đào tạo [Ministry of Education and Training].

(2022). Tạ, Thành Tấn, Marc Brunelle, and Nguyễn Trần Quý. Voicing and register in Ngái Giao Chrau: Production and perception studies. Journal of Phonetics. 90:101115.

(2021). Register in languages of Southeast Asia: the state of the art. In P. Sidwell & M. Jenny (Eds.), The Languages and Linguistics of Mainland Southeast Asia: A comprehensive guide. De Gruyter Mouton. (with Marc Brunelle)

(2021) The tone system of Ruc and tonogensis and registrogenesis in Vietic languages. Science & Technology Development Journal - Social Science and Humanities (STDJSSH), 5(1).

(2021). Cơ Chế Luồng Hơi, Thời Gian Khởi Thanh Và Những Ứng Dụng Thực Tiễn Của Chúng (On Airstream Mechanism, Voice Onset Time, And Their Practical Applications). Ngôn ngữ|Language. 7 (369): 12-32.

 (2020) Transphonologization of voicing in Chru: Studies in production and perception. Laboratory Phonology: Journal of the Association for Laboratory Phonology 11(1): 15, pp. 1-33. (with Marc Brunelle, James Kirby, and Đinh Lư Giang)

(2019) Chrau register and the transphonologization of voicing. Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, 5p. (with Marc Brunelle  and Nguyễn Trần Quý) 

(2019) Obstruent devoicing and registrogenesis in Chru. Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, 5p. (with Marc Brunelle, James Kirby and Đinh Lư Giang) 

(2016) Is uo an allophone of ua? Language (8), 74-80. (with Dương Xuân Quang)

(2016) The phonetic system of Phuc Le subdialect and Vietnamese writing system. Language and Life (7), 63-69.

(2016) On an old consonant in Quang Binh. Proceedings of the Preserving Vietnamese and Language Education in School Conference. Quảng Bình: Quảng Bình University.

(2014) The dialectal onset system in Phục Lễ (Thủy Nguyên - Hải Phòng). Lexicography and Encyclopedia (5), 185-192.

Language Documentation

(2020) Tạ, Thành Tấn, Marc Brunelle, and Nguyễn Trần Quý. Chrau corpus: a word list for studying the register system of Chrau. Available at: https://pangloss.cnrs.fr/corpus/Chrau?lang=en&mode=normal4

(2020) Marc, Brunelle, and Tạ Thành Tấn. Chru corpus: a word list for studying the register system of Chru. Available at: https://pangloss.cnrs.fr/corpus/Chru?lang=en&ode=normal

 (2021) Tạ, Thành Tấn. Rục corpus: a word list for studying the tone system of Rục. Available at: https://pangloss.cnrs.fr/corpus/R%E1%BB%A5c?lang=en&mode=normal

(2021) Tạ, Thành Tấn.  Arem corpus: word lists for studying register and vowel systems of Arem. Available at: https://pangloss.cnrs.fr/corpus/Arem?lang=en

Conference presentations

(2025). Tạ, Thành Tấn, Trần Thị Thiệp Trần Quang Minh. Nghiên cứu đặc trưng ngữ âm thanh điệu tiếng Việt, tiến tới xây dựng hệ thống tham chiếu ngữ âm phát âm Và thính âm tiếng Việt [An Investigation into the Phonetic Characteristics of Vietnamese Tones: Towards the Establishment of a Reference Framework for Vietnamese Pronunciation and Speech Perception]. The 4th International Otology - Audiology Conference (VAA 2025), Nghệ An.

(2025). Tạ, Thành Tấn. Các chỉ dấu ngữ âm của chất giọng và đo đạc chúng bằng PRAAT [Phonetics of Voice Quality and Their Measurement Using PRAAT]. The 4th International Otology - Audiology Conference (VAA 2025), Nghệ An.

(2024). Tạ, Thành Tấn. Arem: A Register Language without Tone. The 3rd International Conference on Tone and Intonation (TAI 2025), Munich.

(2024). Tạ, Thành Tấn, Marc Brunelle. A description of tone system in Cuối Chăm (Vietic). The 12th International Conference on Austroasiatic Linguistics (ICAAL 12), Chiangmai.

(2024). Tạ, Thành Tấn, Albert Badosa Roldós Trần Quang Minh. An analysis of the tonal system in Mã Liềng (Vietic). The 12th International Conference on Austroasiatic Linguistics (ICAAL 12), Chiangmai.

(2023). Tạ, Thành Tấn, Marc Brunelle, and Dinh Lu Giang. The Production and Perception of Register and Voicing in Mnong Ralam. The 10th International Conference on Austroasiatic Linguistics (ICAAL 10). (online conference)

(2022). The Production and Perception of Register and Voicing in Mnong Ralam. The 10th International Conference on Austroasiatic Linguistics (ICAAL 10). (online conference) (with Marc Brunelle and Đinh Lư Giang)

(2022). Perception of tone and register in Rục language. LabPhon 18. (online conference)

(2021). The role of pitch in registrogenesis and tonogenesis of Vietic languages: new evidence from Rục and Arem. SEALS 2021. (online conference)

(2020) [in Vietnamese] Onset voicing and register in Northern Raglai, Chrau, and Arem. The Fourth International Conference on the Linguistics of Vietnam. Hà Nội-Việt Nam. December 20. (paper, video)

(2019) Chrau register and the transphonologization of voicing. The 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, 5p. (with Marc Brunelle and Nguyen Tran Quy)

(2019) Registrogenesis in Chrau: Phonetic realization and individual variation. The 8th International Conference on AustroAsiatic Linguistics. Chiang Mai-Thailand.

(2019) The acoustics of onset voicing in Chrau, Chru and Jarai. The 29th Meeting of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society. Tokyo-Japan. (with Marc Brunelle and James Kirby)

(2016). The two letters D's in Alexandre de Rhodes' dictionary. Old Town Thanh Chiem and Quoc Ngu writing system. Quảng Nam-Viêt Nam.

(2015) Identify the second element of Vietnamese diphthongs by instrumental methods. National Linguistics Conference - Linguistics Society of Vietnam, Saigon-Viêt Nam.

(2015) Inspecting phonetic characteristics of Vietnamese diphthongs. International Vietnamese Linguistics Conference. Hà Nội-Viêt Nam.

Other Works 

(2022). Nhập môn văn học so sánh (A Vietnamese translation of Ben Hutchinson Comparative Literature: A very short introduction ). Vietnamese National University Press. Hanoi.

(2022) Chúng ta sống bằng ẩn dụ (A Vietnamese translation of G. Lakoff and M. Johnson's Metaphors we live by)

(2019) Các cấu trúc cú pháp (A Vietnamese translation of Chomsky's Syntactic Structures). Vietnamese National University Press. Hanoi.

(2019) Register and Voicing in Chrau. A comprehensive paper submitted to the Department of Linguistics, University of Ottawa.

(2014) The phonetic system of Phục Lễ  sub-dialect (Thuỷ Nguyên - Hải Phòng): An acoustic analyis (M.A thesis). Hanoi National University of Education. Hanoi.

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Tan Ta

Department of Linguistics, University of Ottawa

411, 70 Laurier Ave. East, Ottawa ON Canada, K1N 6N5 

Email: tta061@uottawa.ca