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Southern Hemisphere
• Australia, NZ, SA.
• Colonized at about the same time, early 19th cent.
• So only 200 yrs; time of independent evolution 150 yrs.
1
Changes that occurred in Eng after the American colonization but before the S-Hemi colonization:
a R-Dropping (North)
b BATH Broadening (South)
c Diphthong Shift (South)
Southern Hemisphere basic points
a R-Dropping
b BATH Broadeningc Diphthong Shift.
NB: These developments were not completed in Britain at the beginning of the period (and are not completed now)
Parallel development?
British prestige influence?
Southern Hemisphere
• Loss of r was not as widespread at the beginning of the 19th century as it is now; and large numbers of colonizers from rhotic areas - SW England, Scotland, and particularly Ireland (rebels). ButtS.Hemisphere is non-rhotic throughout
• BATH Broadening was essentially a Southern British development, not Northern British.
• Diphthong Shift was not advanced in the early period : parallel development since.
Southern Hemisphere
2
• Little or no T-glottaling, so this is a later change in BritEng.
• L-Vocalization seems fairly common in Aus - parallel development?
Southern Hemisphere basic points
Australia
• homogenous: Perth in the W and Sidney in the E - 3000 kilometers between them - are virtually the same. In this respect like Canada.
• Social and stylist varieties rather than geographical (unlike Canada)
Australia
W3 593°: "carries forward trends already present in popular accents of the SE of England in the early 19th cent, but allowed to develop more rapidly and thoroughly as a consequence of being freed from the omnipresent restraining influence of RP."
Australia
Differences from Cockney:
• T-Glottalisation and L-Vocalization (Wells) have occurred SINCE in SEng urban accents
• TRAP & DRESS raising
Similarities:
Very similar Diphthong shifts.
Diphthong Shift: repeat(Melchers and Shaw call this “Wide Diphthongs”)
Initial simplification:
paint
pint
point
RP London
Earlier (talking) slide on Diphthong Shift from Week 1
http://www.hi.is/~peturk/KENNSLA/87/VARS/DiphShift.html
Australia
Varieties:
CULTIVATED - GENERAL – BROAD
• Cultivated: little or no Diphth Shift
• General: Diphth Shift
• Broad: Diphth Shift + extra length of first mora.
Australia
Varieties:
CULTIVATED - GENERAL – BROAD
• Cultivated: little Front Vowel Raising
• General: Front Vowel Raising
• Broad: strong Front Vowel Raising
Aus vowels summary
1. Raising of front vowels:
squashing æ e and i up together. More so in Broad varieties
2. Drag-chain result: fronting of STRUT towards [a] (also London)
3. Fronting of GOOSE, START and NURSE
Aus consonants summary
• T-Voicing is variable;
• not as strong as Gen Am;
• not clear whether there is a loss of opposition in latter - ladder
Aus consonants summary
• “No L-Vocalisation” (Wells) ??
No clear l- Dark l distinction; Wells: l tends to be 'pharyngealized' in all positions, rather than velarized:
Wells quotes blade, telephone, happily.