Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- Acknowledgements
- List of abbreviations
- Symbols used
- 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
- Appendix 1 Mobile Unit speakers
- Appendix 2 The historical background of some settlements visited by the Mobile Unit
- Appendix 3 Maps
- Appendix 4 Seven Mobile Unit speakers born outside New Zealand
- Appendix 5 Acoustic vowel charts for the ten speakers included in the acoustic analysis
- Appendix 6 Speaker indexes for quantified variables, together with relevant social information
- References
- Index
Appendix 4 - Seven Mobile Unit speakers born outside New Zealand
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 September 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- Acknowledgements
- List of abbreviations
- Symbols used
- 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
- Appendix 1 Mobile Unit speakers
- Appendix 2 The historical background of some settlements visited by the Mobile Unit
- Appendix 3 Maps
- Appendix 4 Seven Mobile Unit speakers born outside New Zealand
- Appendix 5 Acoustic vowel charts for the ten speakers included in the acoustic analysis
- Appendix 6 Speaker indexes for quantified variables, together with relevant social information
- References
- Index
Summary
Data from these speakers are not included in the various analyses reported elsewhere in this book. For an explanation of terms used and a fuller description of the variables, see Chapter 6.
1 Australia
Mr George Firth was born in Tasmania in 1875 and came to New Zealand in his early twenties. His speech does not stand out from that of other Mobile Unit speakers of comparable age. Like the New Zealand-born, Mr Firth has some relatively advanced features; he uses raised dress and trap vowels and diphthong-shifted mouth and price vowels, he is non-rhotic and uses schwa in unstressed syllables. Like some New Zealand-born speakers, he also has some relatively conservative features, such as the thought vowel in off, across and so on. Unlike most modern Australian speakers, but like other New Zealand-born Mobile Unit speakers, he uses the start vowel in the dance class of words.
2 Scotland
Mrs Susan McFarlane was born in Scotland around 1845 and came to New Zealand aged thirty-three. Her speech differs considerably from that of the New Zealand-born Mobile Unit speakers of comparable age (see Trudgill, Maclagan and Lewis 2003).
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- New Zealand EnglishIts Origins and Evolution, pp. 326 - 327Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2004