Australian English is traditionally considered to be the form of English spoken by people who are born in Australia or who immigrate at an early age and whose peer network consists of Australian English speakers (Bernard 1981). Such a simple definition implies that Australian English is a single form, which all native-born Australians will attain and exhibit. This paper will review segmental as...

farsi and english are both indo-european languages with similarities in their roots. as such, this experiment was conducted to understand which english accent (i.e. american, british or australian accents) would be easier for iranians to adapt. to answer this question, 30 medical students performed three different activities of (i) listening to audio texts in three accents, (ii) taking part in ...

This study examined the extent to which visual speech assisted native Australian English speakers to perceive Japanese-accented English compared with Australian English spoken sentences presented in speech-shaped noise (SNR:-4dB). Twenty-one native Australian English listeners performed a speech perception in noise task with Japaneseaccented and Australian English sentences in two conditions: a...

This study compares utterances by Vietnamese learners of Australian English with those of native subjects. In a previous study the utterances had been rated for foreign accent and intelligibility. We aim to find measurable prosodic differences accounting for the perceptual results. Our outcomes indicate, inter alia, that unaccented syllables are relatively longer compared with accented ones in ...

This paper compares the acoustic characteristics of fricated realisations of /t/ in Australian English with /s/ and /S/. Australian English fricated /t/, like Irish English slit-/t/, shows similarities with /S/ rather than with /s/, whereas Middlesbrough English fricated /t/ is closer to /s/ (Jones and Llamas 2003). These findings raise the possibility that, rather than arising as an independen...

Carter & Local [3] report acoustic data showing that in two varieties of British English, the liquids /l/ and /r/ are polarised in terms of ‘darkness’ along the F2 dimension; Leeds English has dark onset /l/ (low F2) and a light onset /r/ (high F2), and Newcastle English has the opposite pattern. Here we report data on liquid polarisation for Australian English, a variety reported to show a ver...

Frication of stops occurs when a phonemic stop is produced with incomplete closure such that it is effectively reduced to a fricative. This is a typical connected speech process in dialects of British English, and has also been observed in Australian English. The present study examines patterns of frication of the voiceless stops /k/ and /p/ in Australian English produced by a group of male spe...

OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to report on the physical and mental health of migrant and refugee fathers participating in a population-based study of Australian children and their families. DESIGN Cross-sectional survey data drawn from a population-based longitudinal study when children were aged 4-5 years. SETTING Population-based study of Australian children and their families. P...

BACKGROUND There is conflicting evidence of the healthy migrant effect with respect to mental health. This study aims to determine if there are differences in mental health and service use between Australian-born and foreign-born individuals living in South Australia and to consider the differing role of socio-demographic characteristics for Australian-born and foreign-born men and women. MET...