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New Zealand English : its origins and evolution
- Title
- New Zealand English : its origins and evolution / Elizabeth Gordon [and others].
- Publication
- Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2004.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Gordon, Elizabeth, 1941-
- Description
- xix, 370 pages; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "This study of the evolution of New Zealand English will be welcomed by all those interested in phonetics, sociolinguistics, historical linguistics and dialectology."--Jacket.
- Series Statement
- Studies in English language
- Uniform Title
- Studies in English language.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 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.
- ISBN
- 0521642922
- 9780521642927
- 9780521108959
- 0521108950
- 0511486677
- 9780511486678
- 0511193556 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2003055395
- OCLC
- ocm52575498
- 52575498
- SCSB-8863938
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library