Prosodic Aspects of Hawai’i English: The Rise-Fall Contour

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2014-05-01

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University of Hawai'i at Mānoa Department of Linguistics

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This paper examines prosodic contours found in Hawai‘i English, the dialect of English specific to the Hawaiian Islands. Data from casual interviews and tasks completed in a laboratory setting show that, alongside the use of the Mainstream American English rising contour for continuation and questions, speakers of Hawai‘i English use a rise-fall prosodic contour that is also found in both Hawaiian and Pidgin (Hawai‘i Creole). Description of the rise-fall contour adds evidence to the growing body of work that shows that Hawai‘i English is distinct from other varieties of spoken English.

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Kirtley, M. Joelle. 2014. Prosodic Aspects of Hawai’i English: The Rise-Fall Contour. University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa Working Papers in Linguistics 45(2).

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