Australian English

Varieties of English
•Sandard Australian English (AusE)
•Aboriginal English
•Various ethno-cultural AustralianEnglish dialects
yet to be adequately described.

Australian English today comprises various inter
- related dialects.
- the dominant dialect is Standard AusE which varies across speakers according to
- vowel and consonant phonetic realisation
- allophonic and connected speech processes
- suprasegmentalfeatures and voice quality
- regional variation is present but not extensive
- gender differentiatonis maintained primarily through consonantal and prosodic effects

How does the Australian English accent
differ from other English accents?
-vowel system
-inventory and phonetic characteristics
-relationships between elements
-allophonic and reduction processes
- consonantal modifications
- connected speech processes
- allophonic processes
- suprasegmental and voice quality differences

Some other phonetic characteristics
- non-rhotic: no pre-pausal/pre-consonantal
- stop weakening processes are variable, e.g.
•intervocalic flapping, “butter, water”
•final non-release, “hat, had”
•pre-consonantal glottalling, “butler”, “not now”
- pre-nasal and pre-lateral vowel effects