Aspiration of Plosives in Maori: Change Over Time. Maclagan, M. & King, J. Australian Journal of Linguistics, 27(1):81–96, 2007. ![Aspiration of Plosives in Maori: Change Over Time [link]](https://bibbase.org/img/filetypes/link.svg "link")
Paper abstract bibtex Maori is the language of the indigenous people of New Zealand. Traditionally the Maori plosive consonants are regarded as unaspirated, in contrast to English voiceless plosives which are strongly aspirated in initial position. This paper traces the increase in aspiration in Maori plosives over time by analysing the Maori and English plosive consonants of three speakers born over a span of nearly 100 years. It shows that both the number of aspirated plosives and the degree of aspiration (measured by VOT) have increased from the oldest speaker (born in 1885) to the youngest speaker (born in 1972) in both languages. There may be some language internal factors at work, but influence from English is a likely cause for this change. The youngest speaker was born before the Maori language revitalization programme was established. The results provide a snapshot of the pronunciation of Maori stops before the development of the kohanga reo revitalization movement (Maori language nests) in 1982. Adapted from the source document
@article{maclagan_aspiration_2007,
title = {Aspiration of {Plosives} in {Maori}: {Change} {Over} {Time}},
volume = {27},
shorttitle = {Aspiration of {Plosives} in {Maori}},
url = {http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/07268600601172983},
abstract = {Maori is the language of the indigenous people of New Zealand. Traditionally the Maori plosive consonants are regarded as unaspirated, in contrast to English voiceless plosives which are strongly aspirated in initial position. This paper traces the increase in aspiration in Maori plosives over time by analysing the Maori and English plosive consonants of three speakers born over a span of nearly 100 years. It shows that both the number of aspirated plosives and the degree of aspiration (measured by VOT) have increased from the oldest speaker (born in 1885) to the youngest speaker (born in 1972) in both languages. There may be some language internal factors at work, but influence from English is a likely cause for this change. The youngest speaker was born before the Maori language revitalization programme was established. The results provide a snapshot of the pronunciation of Maori stops before the development of the kohanga reo revitalization movement (Maori language nests) in 1982. Adapted from the source document},
language = {eng},
number = {1},
journal = {Australian Journal of Linguistics},
author = {Maclagan, Margaret and King, Jeanette},
year = {2007},
keywords = {Aspiration, Descriptive Linguistics, Diachronic Linguistics, New Zealand English, Polynesian Languages, Sound Change, Stops (84300), Voice Onset Time (Vot), language contact},
pages = {81--96},
}
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