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Title: Broadness variation in Australian English speaking females
Related: Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology (13th : 2010) (14 - 16 December 2010 : Melbourne)
Related: Proceedings of the 13th Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology, p.175-178
Publisher: Melbourne : Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association (ASSTA)
Date: 2010
FoR/RFCD Code(s): 200400 Linguistics
Author/Creator: Cox, Felicity
Author/Creator: Palethorpe, Sallyanne
Description: For nearly 50 years, Australian English has been described as a dialect exhibiting broadness variation reflective of sociodemographic speaker characteristics. However, observations suggesting the disintegration of the broadness continuum in the speech of young people today raise questions about its validity as a descriptive tool for current Australian English. In this paper we examine a set of vowels from 116 young Sydney females to explore whether vowel broadness does vary as a consequence of socioeconomic factors including school type, parents’ place of birth, region of upbringing and parents’ occupation. Results provide evidence against using traditional broadness categories to investigate sociolectal variation.
Description: 4 page(s)
Subject Keyword: 200400 Linguistics
Subject Keyword: Australian English
Subject Keyword: vowels
Subject Keyword: acoustic phonetics
Resource Type: conference paper
Organisation: Macquarie University. Dept. of Linguistics
Organisation: Macquarie University. Macquarie Centre for Cognitive Science

Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.14/156791
Identifier: ISBN:9780958194631
Identifier: mq-rm-2010004139
Language: eng
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