| Автор | Watson, Catherine I. |
| Автор | Maclagan, Margaret |
| Автор | Harrington, Jonathan |
| Дата выпуска | 2000 |
| dc.description | This study provides acoustic evidence that in the last 50 years New Zealand English (NZE) has undergone a substantial vowel shift. Two sets of data are studied: the Otago corpus, recorded in 1995, and the Mobile Unit corpus, recorded in 1948. Both corpora have male and female speakers. The corpora were labeled, accented vowels were extracted, and formant values were calculated. The results of the formant analysis from the two corpora are contrasted. We provide evidence that in NZE /i/ has centralized, /e/ and /æ/ have raised, and the diphthongs /i[inverted e]/ and /e[inverted e]/ have merged. We argue that /i/ changed in quality not only because of crowding in the front vowel space, but also because it would be less likely misperceived as an unaccented vowel (i.e., as [inverted e]). |
| Издатель | Cambridge University Press |
| Название | Acoustic evidence for vowel change in New Zealand English |
| Electronic ISSN | 1469-8021 |
| Print ISSN | 0954-3945 |
| Журнал | Language Variation and Change |
| Том | 12 |
| Первая страница | 51 |
| Последняя страница | 68 |
| Аффилиация | Watson Catherine I.; Macquarie University |
| Аффилиация | Maclagan Margaret; University of Canterbury |
| Аффилиация | Harrington Jonathan; Macquarie University |
| Выпуск | 1 |
