English accents

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English accents 15. Australian

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English accents. 15. Australian. southern hemisphere English. South AfricaAustraliaNew Zealand. settlement from England in the early 19th century: phonologically like RP, but phonetically different. Australian English. geographically homogeneous rural vs. urban. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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English accents

15. Australian

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southern hemisphere English

South Africa Australia New Zealand

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

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Australian English

geographically homogeneousrural vs. urban

social/stylistic variation

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social/stylistic

beer

BROAD

rural

GENERAL

urban

CULTIVATED

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mixing bowl

southeastern English with the RP brakes off

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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)']

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strong vowels

systemically = RP etc

weak vowels

the happY vowel is like

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Collins & Mees, 2003,

Practical Phonetics

and Phonology