ABSTRACT
Technological advances in phonetic research in recent years have greatly increased our understanding of the production and perception of the tones of Standard Thai. From Abramson (1962) onwards there has been a stream of publications on this topic. It is noteworthy, however, that apart from the examination of the voice and aspiration distinction in initial plosives (see Lisker and Abramson’s important 1964 paper on Voice Onset Time) research into the segmental elements of Thai has not availed itself of the resources of the modern phonetics laboratory to anything like the same extent.1
