English in Oceania

With which intention was the British colony in Australia founded?

• As a trade colony.

• As a penal colony.

• For missionary reasons only.

Which of the following is not a stage of dialect mixing and new dialect formation?

• Contact

• Variability

• Focusing

• Stabilizing

The word hey would most likely be pronounced like ________ by a speaker of Australian English.

• [eɪ]/[heɪ]

• [a:]/[ha:]

• [æe]/[hæe]

• [hɪ]

Australian English is frequently associated with a

• Questioning Intonation

• Falling Intonation

• Wavering Intonation

• Declaring Intonation

In Australia the questioning intonation is associated with

• speakers of all ages

• teenagers

• children

• the elderly

Who arrived in New Zealand before the British? (more than one possible answer)

• The Germans

• No one

• Polynesians

• The Dutch

The centralization of /ɪ/

• distinguishes AusE and NzE

• is the same in AusE and NzE

• does not occur in AusE or NzE

New Zealand English shows

• the same changes in diphthongs as AusE

• different changes in diphthongs as AusE

NzE and AusE are both

• rhotic

• non-rhotic

A feature not commonly associated with NzE

• flapped /t/

• h-dropping