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English accents
15. Australian
southern hemisphere English
South Africa Australia New Zealand
settlement from England in the early 19th century:phonologically like RP, but phonetically different
Australian English
geographically homogeneousrural vs. urban
social/stylistic variation
social/stylistic
beer
BROAD
rural
GENERAL
urban
CULTIVATED
mixing bowl
southeastern English with the RP brakes off
levelling reduction or removal of marked variants
simplification reduction of irregularity
mixing of otherwise distinct varieties
koinéization in 'colonial' English (Trudgill)
koiné 1 the common language of the Greeks from the close of the classical period to the Byzantine era.
2 a common language shared by various peoples; a lingua franca.
[Greek koine (dialektos) 'common (language)']
strong vowels
systemically = RP etc
weak vowels
the happY vowel is like
Collins & Mees, 2003,
Practical Phonetics
and Phonology