We found a match
Your institution may have access to this item. Find your institution then sign in to continue.
- Title
Word-initial [h]-drop variation in Nmbo: Change-in-progress in an egalitarian multilingual speech community of Papua New Guinea.
- Authors
Kashima, Eri
- Abstract
This paper presents a natural speech corpus-based study of word-initial [h]-drop from the Nmbo speech community of southern Papua New Guinea. It is a speech community within a traditional egalitarian multilingual language ecology sustained by a practice of virilocal exogamy, and there is strong intergenerational transmission of local vernacular languages. This study investigates the propensity of word-initial [h]-drop in nouns, based on Nmbo speech data of Kerake tribe people. The results from the Nmbo Sociolinguistic Corpus shows clear age-conditioned variation, with younger speakers showing a higher propensity for [h]-drop. Nmbo speakers residing both within and outside their Nmbo villages of origin appear to be partaking in the innovative [h]-drop. The origin of the [h]-drop appears to be from the village with a more multilingual profile, as would be predicted by the notion of a multilingual feature pool (Cheshire, Kerswill, Fox, & Torgersen, 2011, Mufwene 2001).
- Subjects
PAPUA New Guinea; NATIVE language; SPEECH; ENDOGAMY &; exogamy; COMMUNITIES; NOUNS; SOCIOLINGUISTICS
- Publication
Asia-Pacific Language Variation (APLV), 2020, Vol 6, Issue 2, p250
- ISSN
2215-1354
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1075/aplv.20002.kas