Lyle Campbell, Jennifer Hay, Margaret Maclagan

New Zealand English

Its Origins and Evolution

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Produktbeschreibung

Short description/annotation
Examines the origins and development of New Zealand English on the basis of extensive audio-recordings.

Main description
New Zealand English - at just 150 years old - is one of the newest varieties of English, and is unique in that its full history and development are documented in extensive audio-recordings. The rich corpus of spoken language provided by New Zealand's 'mobile disk unit' has provided insight into how the earliest New Zealand-born settlers spoke, and consequently, how this new variety of English developed. On the basis of these recordings, this book examines and analyses the extensive linguistic changes New Zealand English has undergone since it was first spoken in the 1850s. The authors, all experts in phonetics and sociolinguistics, use the data to test previous explanations for new dialect formation, and to challenge current claims about the nature of language change. The first ever corpus-based study of the evolution of New Zealand English, this book will be welcomed by all those interested in phonetics, sociolinguistics, historical linguistics and dialectology.

Table of contents:
1. Introduction; 2. Overview and background; 3. The historical background; 4. Previous attempts to explain the origins of New Zealand English; 5. Methodology; 6. The variables of early New Zealand English; 7. The origins of New Zealand English: reflections from the ONZE data; 8. Implications for language change; Appendices.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 392
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. November 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 785g
• ISBN-13: 9780521642927
• ISBN-10: 0521642922
• Artikelnr.: 20978742

Autorenporträt

Elizabeth Gordon is an Associate Professor in the department of Linguistics at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. Overview and background
3. The historical background
4. Previous attempts to explain the origins of New Zealand English
5. Methodology
6. The variables of early New Zealand English
7. The origins of New Zealand English: reflections from the ONZE data
8. Implications for language change
Appendices.