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

Rikke L. Bundgaard-Nielsen; Catherine T. Best; Michael D. Tyler; Christian Kroos

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

Rikke L. Bundgaard-Nielsen, Catherine T. Best, Michael D. Tyler, Christian Kroos

School of Psychology

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Abstract

Research on various dialects of English has demonstrated the existence of so-called near-mergers. The present study examines the identification and discrimination of the vowels of Western Sydney Australian English, for which no such mergers have been previously documented. We find evidence for perceptual confusion of /i/-/IÉ™/ (in /hVbÉ™/), despite significant acoustic differences in productions of these two vowels. This meets the defining features of a near-merger.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Interspeech 2008: Proceedings of the 9th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, incorporating SST 2008, held in Brisbane, Qld. 22-26 September, 2008
Publisher	Causal Productions
Number of pages	1
Publication status	Published - 2008
Event	International Speech Communication Association. Conference - Duration: 9 Sept 2012 → …

Conference

Conference	International Speech Communication Association. Conference
Period	9/09/12 → …

Keywords

North Sydney (N.S.W.)
English language
Australia
New South Wales
vowels
Western Sydney (N.S.W.)
education
speech perception
Centre for Western Sydney

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Bundgaard-Nielsen, RL, Best, CT, Tyler, MD & Kroos, C 2008, Evidence of a near-merger in Western Sydney Australian English vowels. in Interspeech 2008: Proceedings of the 9th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, incorporating SST 2008, held in Brisbane, Qld. 22-26 September, 2008. Causal Productions, International Speech Communication Association. Conference, 9/09/12.

Evidence of a near-merger in Western Sydney Australian English vowels. / Bundgaard-Nielsen, Rikke L.; Best, Catherine T.; Tyler, Michael D. et al.
Interspeech 2008: Proceedings of the 9th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, incorporating SST 2008, held in Brisbane, Qld. 22-26 September, 2008. Causal Productions, 2008.

Research output: Chapter in Book / Conference Paper › Conference Paper

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