Mutual intelligibility between certain Polynesian speech communities

dc.contributor.author	Ward, Jack H.
dc.date.accessioned	2015-05-22T20:06:11Z
dc.date.available	2015-05-22T20:06:11Z
dc.date.issued	1962
dc.description.abstract	This paper looks at groups of speakers of one language that exhibit variations in speech from region to region or between social levels. When these variations serve to reduce intelligibility one may say that two dialects of a language are thereby revealed. As these differences become still more numerous and crucial across time and space, intelligibility is more and more limited until such a small degree of communication takes place that it can be said that for all practical purposes the speakers are using different languages. Mutual intelligibility is examined between groups.
dc.description.degree	M.A.
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10125/36041
dc.language	eng
dc.publisher	University of Hawaii at Manoa
dc.relation	Theses for the degree of Master of Arts (University of Hawaii (Honolulu)) Anthropology no. 480
dc.rights	All UHM dissertations and theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed from this source for any purpose, but reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission from the copyright owner.
dc.subject	Polynesian languages--Dialects
dc.subject	Polynesian languages--Phonology
dc.title	Mutual intelligibility between certain Polynesian speech communities
dc.type	Thesis
dc.type.dcmi	Text

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