Institut für Linguistik - Phonetik
Herbert-Lewin-Str. 6
D-50931 Köln

E-Mail: chemvatho@gmail.com

Publications

In preparation

• In preparation. Vatho, Chem. "The Illustration of IPA: Khmer (Phnom Penh Dialect)," to be submitted to the Journal of the International Phonetics Association.

2021

• Vatho, Chem. 2021. Khmer Vowel System: Structure and Variation.CJBAR. PHNOM PENH. http://www.rupp.edu.kh/CJBAR/files/Vol-2-Issue-2/5-CHEM-Vol-2-Issue-2.pdf

2016

• Jean-Michel, Filippi & Vatho, Chem. (2016). The Linguistic Atlas of Cambodia and Standard Khmer Language. In Endo, Mitsuaki (ed.), Papers from the Third International Conference on Asian Geolinguistics, Phnom Penh, May 2016 (pp. 139-147). Electronic Publication. Available at: https://publication.aa-ken.jp/papers_3IC_Asian_geolinguistics_2016.pdf

2015

• Vatho, Chem (2015). The Khmer Vowel System. Department of Linguistics, Royal University of Phnom Penh. (In Khmer)
• Vatho, Chem. (2015). "A New Khmer pronouncing dictionary," abstract of presentation at the International Conference of Austroasiatic Languages 6th (ICAAL 6th), available at: https://sites.google.com/site/icaalprojects/icaal-meetings/icaal-6-2015#h.p_oZqT8BlDMZPb

Conferences

• The 32nd Annual Meeting of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society (SEALS 32) Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, Thailand, 16^th – 18^th May 2023. (Funded by KAAD, Germany)
• The 31st Annual Meeting of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society (SEALS 31), The University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA, 18^th – 20^th May 2022. (Funded by the National Science Foundation, USA)
• International Conference on Austroasiatic Languages, Chaing Mai, Thailand, August 2019
• International Congress of Phonetic Sciences ICPhS 2019, Australia, August 2019
• National Conference on Khmer Transcription and Transliteration, 2019
• National Conference on Khmer Language Diversity, Phnom Penh, Cambodia, 2017
• International Conference on Geo-Linguistics of Asian the 3^rd at Phnom Penh, Cambodia, 2016
• National Conference of Khmer Language, Phnom Penh, Cambodia 2016
• International Conference of Austroasiatic Languages the 6^th, Siem Reap Province, Cambodia, 2015

Research interests

• Dialectology and Linguistic atlas of Cambodia
• Principles of word borrowing and phonology in Khmer
• Phonetics and Phonology of Khmer language
• Acoustic phonetics (structure and variation of Khmer vowel system)
• Phonetics and machine learning tools: Segmentation tool for Khmer language, grapheme-to-phoneme(g2p) tool: Phonetisaurus and Forced Aligner tools: Prosody Lab and Montreal Forced aligner.
• Khmer acoustic model (evaluating and application)
• Corpus studies (collective approaches of the low-resource language, Khmer (theory and practice)
• Phonetic reductions in Central Khmer (theory and application)
• Prosodic systems and intonations of Khmer (prior study and application)