scholarly journals Perceptual vowel contrast reduction in Australian English /l/-final rimes

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 9
Author(s):  
Tünde Szalay ◽  
Titia Benders ◽  
Felicity Cox ◽  
Michael Proctor
Keyword(s):  
Australian English ◽  
Vowel Contrast ◽  
Contrast Reduction

English in South Africa

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bertus van Rooy
Keyword(s):  
South African ◽  
Indian Languages ◽  
African Languages ◽  
Government Education ◽  
The Media ◽  
Back Vowel ◽  
Important Position ◽  
Vowel Contrast ◽  
Contrast Reduction ◽  
Education Business

South African English (SAfE) traces its roots to the 1820 British settlers. From here, it spread to the descendants of Indian indentured labourers, who later shifted to English as home language. English diffused as second language to the indigenous African population and speakers of Afrikaans, and today occupies an important position as language of government, education, business, and the media. SAfE has borrowed vocabulary from Afrikaans, ancestral Indian languages, and in recent years also from other South African languages. Phonetically, SAfE has raised front vowels, the short front /i/ has allophones that range from high front in KIN to centralized in PIN, and a back vowel realization of START. Non-native varieties display various degrees of vowel contrast reduction. The modal must is used more extensively than in other varieties of English, while Black SAfE also uses the progressive aspect for a wider timespan than just temporariness.

Spectral contrast reduction in Australian English /l/-final rimes

2021 ◽  
Vol 149 (2) ◽  
pp. 1183-1197 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tünde Szalay ◽  
Titia Benders ◽  
Felicity Cox ◽  
Sallyanne Palethorpe ◽  
Michael Proctor
Keyword(s):  
Spectral Contrast ◽  
Australian English ◽  
Contrast Reduction

Snapshots of tellings in interactions between adults and children aged two, three and three and a half in an Australian context

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 119-143 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Filipi
Keyword(s):  
Social Activity ◽  
Second Child ◽  
Object A ◽  
Birthday Party ◽  
Final Sample ◽  
The Social ◽  
Two Samples ◽  
Adults And Children ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
Australian English

This paper examines how and by whom tellings with two young children are triggered at ages 23, 36 and 42 months. The data for the investigation is derived from a larger Australian English corpus of over 50 hours of interactions in the home, although one of the children is a bilingual Italian/ English-speaking child. The data is derived from two parent/child dyads, and in the case of the child aged 42 months, a triadic interaction between a mother, her own child and a second child. Using the micro-analytic methods of conversation analysis, the study analyses five samples of tellings. The first two describe how a child, Cassandra, aged 23 months, is invited to recount events of her day by her parents. The trigger for these tellings is the social activity of sharing everyday routine events. The next two samples focus on Rosie at 36 months who is also invited to share a telling by her parent about a birthday party celebration and one about a neighbourhood cat, Claude. The first telling is triggered by an object, a balloon from a birthday party from the day before, while the second is triggered by play involving the character of a cat, initially derived from a favourite story, Hairy Maclary. In the final sample, Cassandra, aged 42 months, initiates a telling about an experience at her grandmother’s which is trigged by a picture in a book. The analyses in each case reveal the interactional issues that arise in the action of telling and how these are dealt with by all participants. By focusing on the three ages, key features in the children’s participation in storytelling are uncovered.

Articulation of Vowel Length Contrasts in Australian English

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Louise Ratko ◽  
Michael Proctor ◽  
Felicity Cox
Keyword(s):  
Vowel Length ◽  
Australian English

scholarly journals Evidence for active control of tongue lateralization in Australian English /l/

2021 ◽  
Vol 86 ◽  
pp. 101039
Author(s):  
Jia Ying ◽  
Jason A. Shaw ◽  
Christopher Carignan ◽  
Michael Proctor ◽  
Donald Derrick ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Active Control ◽  
Australian English

Acoustic cues to coda stop voicing contrasts in Australian English-speaking children

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-19
Author(s):  
Julien MILLASSEAU ◽  
Ivan YUEN ◽  
Laurence BRUGGEMAN ◽  
Katherine DEMUTH
Keyword(s):  
Hearing Loss ◽  
Vowel Duration ◽  
Acoustic Cues ◽  
Word Onset ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
Australian English ◽  
Children With Hearing Loss ◽  
Phonological Contrasts

Abstract While voicing contrasts in word-onset position are acquired relatively early, much less is known about how and when they are acquired in word-coda position, where accurate production of these contrasts is also critical for distinguishing words (e.g., do g vs. do ck ). This study examined how the acoustic cues to coda voicing contrasts are realized in the speech of 4-year-old Australian English-speaking children. The results showed that children used similar acoustic cues to those of adults, including longer vowel duration and more frequent voice bar for voiced stops, and longer closure and burst durations for voiceless stops along with more frequent irregular pitch periods. This suggests that 4-year-olds have acquired productive use of the acoustic cues to coda voicing contrasts, though implementations are not yet fully adult-like. The findings have implications for understanding the development of phonological contrasts in populations for whom these may be challenging, such as children with hearing loss.

Intonational Rises and Dialog Acts in the Australian English Map Task

2002 ◽  
Vol 45 (3) ◽  
pp. 229-253 ◽  
Author(s):  
Janet Fletcher ◽  
Lesley Stirling ◽  
Ilana Mushin ◽  
Roger Wales
Keyword(s):  
Australian English
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