HISB94H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Vowel Length, Stop Consonant, Free Variation
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Although vowel length is phonemic, long vowels are not always pronounced as such,[77] even though under the rules for assigning stress in hawaiian, a long vowel will always receive stress. Sonorant w ~ v l ~ h. Hawaiian is known for having very few consonant phonemes eight: /p, k ~ t, , h, m, n, l, w ~ v/. It is notable that hawaiian has allophonic variation of [t] with [k],[81][82][83][84] [w] with [v],[85] and (in some dialects) [l] with [n]. In some dialects, / / remains as [k] in some words. These variations are largely free, though there are conditioning factors. /l/ tends to [n] especially in words with both /l/ and /n/, such as in the island name l na i ([la n i] . [na n i]), though this is not always the case: ele ele or ene ene "black".
