Australian English Phonetics
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Impressionistic Studies of Australian English
This topic covers the historical background to studies of Australian English
pronunciation. You will not be examined directly on much of the material covered
in this topic. Please refer to the section entitled "Comments About this Topic"
at the top of the "Impressionistic Studies of Australian English" pages for
detailed information about what aspects of this material you will need to
understand.
The Vowels of Australian English and Other English
Dialects
This topic covers briefly some of the results of acoustic studies of Australian
English. These results are summarised in a number of diagrams which place
the acoustic data onto cardinal vowel grids. This is not the normal way of
displaying acoustic data but it is done here for pedagogic reasons. Similar
data is also presented for British RP English, General American English and
New Zealand English. These displays permit examination of the reasons behind
the selection of certain vowel symbols for the transcription of the vowels
of these English dialects.
Australian English Transcription
The tutorial material on Broad
Transcription and Narrow
Transcription supplements these lecture topics on Australian English Phonetics.