We found a match
Your institution may have access to this item. Find your institution then sign in to continue.
- Title
THE MAONZE CORPUS: ESTABLISHING A CORPUS OF MĀORI SPEECH.
- Authors
King, Jeanette; Maclagan, Margaret; Harlow, Ray; Keegan, Peter; Watson, Catherine
- Abstract
The MAONZE project investigates change over time in the pronunciation of the Māri language. This is the first such investigation of sound change in an indigenous language currently undergoing revitalisation and is made possible through the existence of recordings of speakers born in the late 19th century. The MAONZE corpus contains recordings of the Māori and English speech of three generations of speakers of Māori whose birthdates span 100 years. This article outlines the background to the project and gives details on how the corpus of recordings was compiled as well as giving information about two related corpora: the Tūhoe corpus and the Māori English corpus. We hope that the details provided here will encourage others to record older first-language speakers of Māori and develop corpora similar to those described here. A companion piece will describe the transcription protocols and the use that has so far been made of the recordings.
- Subjects
MAORI language; POLYNESIAN languages; LANGUAGE &; languages; PRONUNCIATION; ORAL communication
- Publication
New Zealand Studies in Applied Linguistics, 2010, Vol 16, Issue 2, p1
- ISSN
1173-5562
- Publication type
Article