Language Variation and Change in Hawai’i English: KIT, DRESS, and TRAP

Katie Drager · M. Joelle Kirtley · James Grama · Sean Simpson

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Linguistic Variation and Morphology Phonetics and Phonology Research Linguistic and Sociocultural Studies

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Using an apparent time approach and acoustic phonetic analysis, this study provides the first description of sociolinguistic variation in the realizations of the short-front vowels in Hawaiʻi English. We demonstrate that the realizations of the short-front vowels in Hawaiʻi are conditioned by speaker sex and age, and whether an individual self-identifies as a speaker of Pidgin. We argue that the differences between the vowel realizations of Pidgin and non-Pidgin speakers are likely to be at least partially socially-motivated.

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