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The Samoan vowel shift: A phenomenon in phonetics and phonological awareness

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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...
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2019
Location:
Samoa
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Journal article
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Macmillan Brown Centre for Pacific Studies
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University of Canterbury Library
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