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Australian English Part 3

Australian English Part 3. Graphemic Features and Prosodic Features. Graphemic Features aka SPELLING. Our spelling is predominantly based on British English with only little taken from American English. Defence (American) not defense (British) Program (American) v programme (British)

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Australian English Part 3

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  1. Australian English Part 3 Graphemic Features and Prosodic Features

  2. Graphemic Features aka SPELLING • Our spelling is predominantly based on British English with only little taken from American English. • Defence (American) not defense (British) • Program (American) v programme (British) • Color v colour (the norm is to use colour) • IZE v ISE (we tend to use ise)

  3. Prosodic Features • HRT (High Rising Terminal) not to mistaken for Hormone Replacement Therapy, is quite common in Australia. This creates a sort of questioning pitch to a sentence and can often be applied to statements. • It is suggested that this can be attributed to a marker of insecurity however recently researchers believe it is a technique to regulate conversational interaction and politeness. For example to indicate that you can understand the communication. As the question like tone elicits a response from the interlocutor that indicates a level of comprehension. • HRT is also adopted by ESL speakers or speakers whose English is of another variety. • Take a look at these videos that parody HRT • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPIeOezvLgo

  4. That’s it for the Construction of AE • Next we will be looking at attitudes to variations of Australian English.

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