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Australian English listeners' perception of Japanese vowel length reveals underlying phonological knowledge [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2023 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]
JASA Express Letters, 2022 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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Evaluation of the Adult Migrant English Program for the Australian Government Department of Home Affairs [PDF]
International Journal of Population Data ScienceObjective and Approach The Adult Migrant English Program (AMEP) is a free service to help eligible migrants and humanitarian entrants with low English proficiency to improve their English skills and elevate their participation in Australian society.
Francis Mitrou, Ha Trong Nguyen
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The features of australian english
Russian journal of linguistics: Vestnik RUDN, 2010 In this article it is analyzed and described the main phonetic features of Australian English.
A A Anakhaeva
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The European Journal of Humour Research, 2020 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]
Interspeech 2008, 2008 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 African Journal of Communication Disorders, 1998 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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The Australian Journal of Indigenous Education, 2019 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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Lexikos, 2012 <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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The development of perfect auxiliary verbs be and have in Early Australian English (1788-1937): a corpus study [PDF]
Estudios Interlingüísticos, 2020 Australian English is a relatively new variety of English. As a result, many of its features are still largely unexplored and most research concerning this variety of English has focused on the description of its distinctive phonological features.
Gemma Plaza Tejedor
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