@article{oai:minpaku.repo.nii.ac.jp:00004192,
 author = {加藤, 昌彦 and Kato, Atsuhiko},
 issue = {3},
 journal = {国立民族学博物館研究報告, Bulletin of the National Museum of Ethnology},
 month = {Feb},
 note = {The main purpose of this paper is to describe the phonological
systems of three dialects of Pwo Karen which are spoken in Burma, and
which had not been previously described.
The dialects described in this paper are the languages of Kyonbyaw,
a small delta town (one of the western dialects) , Hpa-an, the capital of
the Karen State (an eastern dialect) and Tavoy, the capital of the
Tenasserim Division of southern Burma (also an eastern dialect) . Since
Pwo Karen (like other languages of the area) is a monosyllabic
language, analysis of syllabic structure is the principal concern of works
dealing with phonological description.
The syllable structure of all of these dialects can be represented as
Cl (C2) V1 (V2) (C3)/T, where C is a consonant, V is a vowel, and T is
a tone. Cl is the initial, C2 the medial and C3 the final consonant. The
combination of V1 (V2) (C3) is further referred to as the rhyme. All of
these dialects possess omnisyllabic tone systems where the tones consist
of bundles of prosodic features including phonation type, pitch and contour.
The author worked consecutively on the Kyonbyaw and Hpa-an
dialects from the latter half of 1993 to the first half of 1995. The work
was carried out chiefly in Rangoon with some short-term fieldtrips to
Kyonbyaw and Hpa-an. The research on the Tavoy dialect was made
sporadically whenever the informant visited Rangoon.},
 pages = {547--598},
 title = {ポー・カレン語諸方言の音韻体系 : 西部方言1種と東部方言2種},
 volume = {20},
 year = {1996},
 yomi = {カトウ, アツヒコ}
}