Identification of New Zealand English and Australian English based on stereotypical accent markers

Little is known about factors that influence dialect perception and the cues listeners rely on in telling apart two accents. This thesis will shed light on how accurate New Zealanders and Australians are at identifying each other's accents and what vowels they tune in to when doing the task....

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Main Author: Ludwig, Ilka
Language:en
Published: University of Canterbury. Linguistics 2008
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10092/985