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New Zealand English : its origins and evolution / Elizabeth Gordon ... [et al.].

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Studies in English languagePublisher: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2004Description: xix, 370 p. 24 cmISBN:
  • 0521642922
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 427.993 22
LOC classification:
  • PE3602 .N495 2004
Contents:
1. Introduction -- 2. Overview and background -- 3. The historical background -- 4. Previous attempts to explain the origins of New Zealand English -- 5. Methodology -- 6. The variables of early New Zealand English -- 7. The origins of New Zealand English : reflections from the ONZE data -- 8. Implications for language change -- App. 1. Mobile Unit speakers -- App. 2. The historical background of some settlements visited by the Mobile Unit -- App. 4. Seven Mobile Unit speakers born outside New Zealand -- App. 5. Acoustic vowel charts for the ten speakers included in the acoustic analysis -- App. 6. Speaker indexes for quantified variables, together with relevant social information.
Review: "This study of the evolution of New Zealand English will be welcomed by all those interested in phonetics, sociolinguistics, historical linguistics and dialectology."--BOOK JACKET.
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Includes bibliographical references (339-358) and index.

1. Introduction -- 2. Overview and background -- 3. The historical background -- 4. Previous attempts to explain the origins of New Zealand English -- 5. Methodology -- 6. The variables of early New Zealand English -- 7. The origins of New Zealand English : reflections from the ONZE data -- 8. Implications for language change -- App. 1. Mobile Unit speakers -- App. 2. The historical background of some settlements visited by the Mobile Unit -- App. 4. Seven Mobile Unit speakers born outside New Zealand -- App. 5. Acoustic vowel charts for the ten speakers included in the acoustic analysis -- App. 6. Speaker indexes for quantified variables, together with relevant social information.

"This study of the evolution of New Zealand English will be welcomed by all those interested in phonetics, sociolinguistics, historical linguistics and dialectology."--BOOK JACKET.

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