English accents

15. Australian

southern hemisphere English

South Africa Australia New Zealand

settlement from England in the early 19th century:phonologically like RP, but phonetically different

Australian English

geographically homogeneousrural vs. urban

social/stylistic variation

social/stylistic

beer

BROAD

rural

GENERAL

urban

CULTIVATED

mixing bowl

southeastern English with the RP brakes off

levelling reduction or removal of marked variants

simplification reduction of irregularity

mixing of 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)']

strong vowels

systemically = RP etc

weak vowels

the happY vowel is like

Collins & Mees, 2003,

Practical Phonetics

and Phonology