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Drager, Katie; Comstock, Bethany Kaleialohapau'ole Chun; Kneubuhl, Hina Puamohala – Language Documentation & Conservation, 2017
Apart from a handful of studies (e.g., Kinney 1956), linguists know little about what variation exists in Hawaiian and what factors constrain the variation. In this paper, we present an analysis of phonetic variation in the word "keia," meaning "this," examining the social, linguistic, and probabilistic factors that constrain…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Malayo Polynesian Languages, Dialects, Sociolinguistics