Convergence and language shift in New Zealand: Consonant cluster reduction in 19th Century Maori English

Analyzes recordings made of Maori born in the 1860s to 1870s to examine whether there were effects of language contact and language shift in New Zealand historically and whether earlier forms of Maori New Zealand English were characterized by contact-induced adaptation processes. (Author/VWL)

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Published inJournal of sociolinguistics Vol. 7; no. 3; pp. 378 - 391
Main Author Schreier, Daniel
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Oxford, UK and Boston, USA Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.08.2003
Blackwell
Subjects
Bilingualism
Consonants
Diachronic Linguistics
Foreign Countries
Indigenous Populations
Language Shift
Language Usage
Languages in contact
Linguistics
Maori (People)
New Zealand
Sociolinguistics
Sociolinguistics and ethnolinguistics
Speech
Tape Recordings
New Zealand
English
Sound recording
Consonant
Sociolinguistics
Linguistic assimilation
Language shift
Phonological reduction
Colonization
Language contact
Convergence
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Summary:Analyzes recordings made of Maori born in the 1860s to 1870s to examine whether there were effects of language contact and language shift in New Zealand historically and whether earlier forms of Maori New Zealand English were characterized by contact-induced adaptation processes. (Author/VWL)
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ISSN:1360-6441
1467-9841
DOI:10.1111/1467-9481.00230