Most non-Māori-speaking New Zealanders are regularly exposed to Māori throughout their
lives without seeming to build any extensive Māori lexicon; at best, they know a small …

The time-consuming nature of coding sociophonetic variables that are typically treated as
categorical represents an impediment to addressing research questions around these …

There is variation in the pronunciation of loanwords, because they can be pronounced with
native sounds or non-native sounds. For example, loanwords from te reo Māori to New …

Twitter constitutes a rich resource for investigating language contact phenomena. In this
paper, we report findings from the analysis of a large-scale diachronic corpus of over one …

There has been a substantial amount of research on language maintenance and shift
(LMLS) and language variation and change (LVC) in New Zealand in the last four decades …

Networks are being used to model an increasingly diverse range of real-world phenomena.
This paper introduces an exploratory approach to studying loanwords in relation to one …

The Indigenous language of ANZ, Māori is undergoing significant revitalisation, following
severe loss of vitality caused by English colonialism. One dimension to this revitalisation is …

This corpus-based study aims to demonstrate that structural restrictions in intrasyllabic
phoneme strings are not categorical but stochastic. To achieve this goal, an attempt was …

Abstract Language is a system of message transmission, which conveys a variety of
messages including both lexical messages and social messages. It has been demonstrated …

This chapter addresses basic concepts, research topics, and key proposals concerning
loanword phonology, as well as some of the implications that loanwords and loanword …