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Rachel McKee; Mireille Vale – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2024
This paper examines recent lexical expansion in New Zealand Sign Language (NZSL) in the context of change in the status of the language and ongoing contact with other (spoken and signed) languages. We categorised 917 new signs documented in the past five years according to their source, semantic field, and sign formation mechanism(s), both…
Descriptors: Sign Language, Semiotics, Linguistic Borrowing, Phrase Structure
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Bauer, Laurie; Holmes, Janet – World Englishes, 1996
Examines the constraints on the realization of "/t/" in New Zealander English. On the basis of an examination of the speech of two similar speakers from that country, a series of allophonic rules is provided. The article shows that the distribution of allophones for these speakers is not the same as for other speakers who have been…
Descriptors: Adults, Age, Consonants, Diachronic Linguistics