TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gordon,Elizabeth
TI  - New Zealand English: its origins and evolution 
T2  - Studies in English language
SN  - 0521642922
AV  - PE3602 .N495 2004
U1  - 427.993 22
PY  - 2004///
CY  - Cambridge, UK, New York
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - English language
KW  - New Zealand
KW  - Variation
KW  - Dialects
KW  - Spoken English
KW  - Provincialisms
KW  - Usage
N1  - 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
N2  - "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
ER  -