New Zealand and New Zealand English / Koenraad Kuiper and Allan Bell -- Handling New Zealand English lexis / Tony Deverson -- Dialectal origins of New Zealand English / Laurie Bauer -- 'No-one sounds like us?' A comparison of New Zealand and other southern hemisphere Englishes / W. Scott Allan and Donna Starks -- New Zealand English across the generations: an analysis of selected vowel and consonant variables / Nicola Woods -- Apparent merger of the front centring diphthongs -EAR and AIR- in New Zealand English / Margaret Batterham
Intonation and prosody in New Zealand English / Paul Warren and David Britain -- Variation in New Zealand English syntax and morphology / Heidi Quinn -- As far as analyxing grammatical variation and change in New Zealand English with very few tokens / David Britain -- Maori and Pakeha English: a case study / Allan Bell -- Talking Maori or Pakeha in English: signaling identity in discourse / Maria Stubbe and Janet Holmes -- 'Deep depression covers the South Tasman Sea': New Zealand meteorological office weather forecasts / Francesca Hickey and Koenraad Kuiper
Cultural cringe revisited: changes through time in Kiwi attitudes toward accents / Donn B
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