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English accents 15. Australian. southern hemisphere English South AfricaAustraliaNew Zealand settlement from England in the early 19th century: phonologically.

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1 English accents 15. Australian

2 southern hemisphere English South AfricaAustraliaNew Zealand settlement from England in the early 19th century: phonologically like RP, but phonetically different

3 Australian English geographically homogeneous rural vs. urban social/stylistic variation

4 social/stylistic bi:@ bI: beer BROAD rural GENERAL urban bI@ CULTIVATED

5 mixing bowl southeastern English with the RP brakes off

6 levellingreduction or removal of marked variants simplificationreduction of irregularity mixingof otherwise distinct varieties koinéization in 'colonial' English (Trudgill) koiné 1 the common language of the Greeks from the close of the classical period to the Byzantine era. 2 a common language shared by various peoples; a lingua franca. [Greek koine (dialektos) 'common (language)']

7 strong vowels systemically = RP etc weak vowels no distinction between I and @ [I] before velars [@] elsewhere the happY vowel is like /i:/

8 rabbit ["r{b@t] abbot ["{b@t] valid ["v{l@d] salad ["s{l@d] offices, officers ["Qf@s@z] tended, tendered ["tend@d]

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10 Collins & Mees, 2003, Practical Phonetics and Phonology


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