The Samoan vowel shift: A phenomenon in phonetics and phonological awareness
- Description:
- This paper is a response to a phenomenon in the area of Samoan phonology, or to be exact, the vowels' pronunciation. It involves a shift in the utterance of vowels in the past thirty years or so. And it comes to this. A gradual blurring in the articulation of the vowel sound has been noted. It appears that the glottal stop had rubbed off on the vowel for reasons that are linguistic, sociologica...
- Display date:
- 2019
- Location:
- Samoa
- Format:
- Journal article
- Collections:
- UC Research Repository
- Publisher:
- Macmillan Brown Centre for Pacific Studies
- Content partner:
- University of Canterbury Library
- Availability:
- Not specified
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