Ende oration and final /n/-realisation
This paper presents a sociophonetic analysis of word-final /n/-elision in Ende (Pahoturi River; Papuan). An analysis of 73 speakers reveals that tense, phonological context, and most significantly, whether or not the speaker is a kawa practitioner, a prestigious type of public oration, are significantly correlated with /n/-retention. A closer look at just five kawa practitioners reveals that age and genre may also play a role. The present study matches Schokkin’s analysis of /n/-elision in Idi (this issue). Indeed, the findings support her conclusions that this pattern is one of /n/-elision (not /n/-addition) and show similarities in conditioning factors. Analysing sociolinguistic variation in this region presents a unique set of benefits and challenges. This paper discusses how emically-derived categories relating to age, clan, and orator status may deviate from characterisations of prestige in Westernised and urbanised societies but better fit southern New Guinea’s social context.
Article outline
- 1.Introduction
- 1.1The Ende language community
- 1.2Variable /n/-realisation
- 1.3
Kawa oration
- 2.Data collection and token selection
- 3.Results
- 3.1Coding and factor selection
- 3.2Linguistic factors
- 3.3Social factors
- 3.4Statistical modelling and results
- 4.Discussion
- 5.Conclusion
- Acknowledgements
- Notes
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Glossing abbreviations used within this article are the following
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