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Autor/inn/en | Holmes, Janet; Bell, Allan |
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Titel | On Shear Markets and Sharing Sheep: The Merger of EAR and AIR Diphthongs in New Zealand English. |
Quelle | In: Language Variation and Change, 4 (1992) 3, S.251-73Infoseite zur Zeitschrift |
Sprache | englisch |
Dokumenttyp | gedruckt; Zeitschriftenaufsatz |
ISSN | 0954-3945 |
Schlagwörter | English; Foreign Countries; Language Usage; Language Variation; Pronunciation; Regional Dialects; Sociolinguistics; Trend Analysis; Vowels |
Abstract | A social dialect survey of a New Zealand community documented a change in progress in the pronunciation of the vowels in words such as "air" and "ear." The data support a tentative interpretation that a shift to the variant with the closer onset for AIR words was initiated by middle-aged Pakeha women. (38 references) (Author/LB) |
Erfasst von | ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC |