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English accents

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 homogeneous rural vs. urban.

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English accents

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  1. English accents 15. Australian

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

  3. Australian English geographically homogeneousrural vs. urban social/stylistic variation

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

  5. southeastern English with the RP brakes off mixing bowl

  6. koinéization in 'colonial' English (Trudgill) mixing of otherwise distinct varieties levelling reduction or removal of marked variants simplification reduction of irregularity 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]

  9. Collins & Mees, 2003, Practical Phonetics and Phonology

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