Broadness variation in Australian English speaking females

Felicity Cox; Sallyanne Palethorpe

Broadness variation in Australian English speaking females

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Abstract

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.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 13th Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology
Place of Publication	Melbourne
Publisher	Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association (ASSTA)
Pages	175-178
Number of pages	4
ISBN (Print)	9780958194631
Publication status	Published - 2010
Event	Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology (13th : 2010) - Melbourne Duration: 14 Dec 2010 → 16 Dec 2010

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Conference	Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology (13th : 2010)
City	Melbourne
Period	14/12/10 → 16/12/10

Keywords

Australian English
vowels
acoustic phonetics

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Cox, F & Palethorpe, S 2010, Broadness variation in Australian English speaking females. in Proceedings of the 13th Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology. Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association (ASSTA), Melbourne, pp. 175-178, Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology (13th : 2010), Melbourne, 14/12/10.

Broadness variation in Australian English speaking females. / Cox, Felicity ; Palethorpe, Sallyanne.
Proceedings of the 13th Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology. Melbourne: Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association (ASSTA), 2010. p. 175-178.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference proceeding contribution › peer-review

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