Evidence of a near-merger in Western Sydney Australian English vowels

Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 1121-

  Bundgaard Nielsen, Rikke L ^a   Best, Catherine T ^a,b   Tyler, Michael D ^a   Kroos, Christian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b HASKINS LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Australian English; Near merger; Vowel perception

Indexed keywords

AUSTRALIAN ENGLISH; ENGLISH VOWELS; NEAR-MERGER; NEAR-MERGERS; PERCEPTUAL CONFUSION; VOWEL PERCEPTION;

LINGUISTICS; MERGING; SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS;

EID: 84867215478     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (3)

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2. Cox, F. "The Acoustics Characteristics of /hVd/ Vowels in the Speech of some Australian Teenagers." Australian Journal of Linguistics, 26 (2), 147-179, 2006.
3. Labov, W.; Mark,; K. Miller, C. "Near-Mergers and the Suspension of Phonemic Contrast." Language Variation and Change, 3, 1, 33-74, 1991.