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Australian English listeners' perception of Japanese vowel length reveals underlying phonological knowledge [PDF]
Speech perception patterns are strongly influenced by one's native phonology. It is generally accepted that native English listeners rely primarily on spectral cues when perceiving vowels, making limited use of duration cues because English lacks ...
Kakeru Yazawa +2 more
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Voice quality in Australian English [PDF]
This study is an acoustic investigation of voice quality in Australian English. The speech of 33 Indigenous Australians (Aboriginal English speakers) is compared to that of 28 Anglo Australians [Mainstream Australian English (MAE) speakers] from two ...
Debbie Loakes, Adele Gregory
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Acoustic Analysis of Vowels in Australian Aboriginal English Spoken in Victoria
(1) Background: Australian Aboriginal English (AAE) is a variety known to differ in various ways from the mainstream, but to date very little phonetic analysis has been carried out.
Debbie Loakes, Adele Gregory
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Educational pathways and earnings trajectories of second-generation immigrants in Australia: New insights from linked census-administrative data [PDF]
This study employs Australian Census data linked to population-based administrative datasets to explore disparities in educational attainment and earnings trajectories over time among Australian-born children of diverse parental migration backgrounds ...
Ha Trong Nguyen +3 more
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The features of australian english
In this article it is analyzed and described the main phonetic features of Australian English.
A A Anakhaeva
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This study presents a lexical semantic analysis of the French verb blaguer and related expressions. This verb belongs to a suite of “French humour practices”, and French-English dictionaries translate it as ‘to joke’.
Sophia Waters
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The vowels of Australian Aboriginal English [PDF]
Abstract Basilectal varieties of Australian Aboriginal English (AAE), which are heavily influenced by the indigenous substrate, may have a very restricted set of vowels compared to Standard Australian English (SAE). A comparison of the vowels of a small group of acrolectal AAE speakers with those of the standard accent suggests that even in varieties ...
Andrew Butcher, Victoria Anderson
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Use of the NAL-AB Wordlists as a South African English Speech Discrimination Test
South Africa still lacks a South African English specific speech discrimination test. As an alternative, this study investigated the use of the Australian English, National Acoustic Laboratories Arthur Boothroyd (N AL-AB) wordlists to assess the speech ...
Wayne J. Wilson +2 more
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Failure to adequately address language differences between home and school is one of the many ways in which education systems frequently disadvantage Aboriginal students.
Janet Watts, Rod Gardner, Ilana Mushin
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<p>The <i>Macquarie Dictionary</i>, first published in Sydney in 1981, was intended to be the first comprehensive dictionary of Australian English.
Arthur Delbridge, Susan Butler
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