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New Zealand

New Zealand. Indistinguishable from Australian to British and Americans; and many Australians hear it as simply another type of Aus. New Zealand Differences from Australian English. Front Vowel Raising: KIT Raising. NZ: KIT Centring. New Zealand Differences from Australian English.

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New Zealand

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  1. New Zealand Indistinguishable from Australian to British and Americans; and many Australians hear it as simply another type of Aus.

  2. New ZealandDifferences from Australian English

  3. Front Vowel Raising:KIT Raising NZ: KIT Centring

  4. New ZealandDifferences from Australian English • HappY is fully tensed.

  5. New ZealandDifferences from Australian English • Other vowels: • Front vowel raising easier, since i has gone; DRESS is more clearly [í].

  6. New ZealandDifferences from Australian English • Other vowels: • NURSE is rounded and forwarded to ø: ø œ E

  7. New ZealandDifferences from Australian English • Other vowels: • NEAR & SQUARE Monophthonging: (NB raised first mora.) • Tendency towards NEAR-SQUARE Merger

  8. New ZealandDifferences from Australian English Consonants: • Occasional retention of w (no GCR) wail-whale: weil-Weil. • Reportedly a small rhotic area in the South, Scottish settlement. • L-vocalisation reported by Hawkins, Wells 609°. !!!!!!! o

  9. New ZealandDifferences from Australian English • Dark ∑ blocks GOOSE and GOAT Fronting: tool tU∑, goal gou∑.

  10. GOOSE and GOAT Fronting GOAT

  11. GOOSE and GOAT Fronting GOOSE

  12. New ZealandDifferences from Australian English

  13. New ZealandDifferences from Australian English

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