An acoustic comparison between New Zealand and Australian English vowels

Australian Journal of Linguistics

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 185-207

  Watson, Catherine I ^a   Harrington, Jonathan ^a   Evans, Zoe ^a  

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EID: 84937183159     PISSN: 07268602     EISSN: 14692996     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07268609808599567     Document Type: Article

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35. We are indebted to Nik Kasabov of the University of Otago for making the speech database available to us. The NZE database was recorded at the University of Otago by the first author, Diana Kassabova, Richard Kilgour, Steven Sinclair, and Mark Laws. We also thank Margaret Maclagan of the University of Canterbury who compiled the word list for the NZE database and for her helpful comments in this study. Finally, we thank the members of SHLRC for their helpful comments and discussion.