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High Rising Terminals in New Zealand English

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 February 2009

David Britain  and
John Newman
David Britain
Affiliation:
Department of Linguistics, Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand
John Newman
Affiliation:
Department of Linguistics & Second Language Teaching, Massey University Palmerston North, New Zealand
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The use of High Rising Terminal intonation contours (HRTs) in statements is a particularly salient and often stigmatized feature of a number of varieties of English. In recent years a number of linguists have investigated the feature from pragmatic (ching 1982, Meyerhoff 1991) and sociolinguistic (Guy, Horvath, Vonwiller, Diasley and Rogers 1986, Allen 1990, Britain 1992) perspectives and its use has also stimulated long running debates in the press (New York Times, Fall 1991; Sydney Morning Herald, June 1992) about its origins, functions and appropriateness. In this paper, we combine a brief discussion of its use and dunction with a F0-plot analysis of a number of HRT contours from recordings made in Wellington, New Zealand in 1989.

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Journal of the International Phonetic Association , Volume 22 , Issue 1-2 , June 1992 , pp. 1 - 11
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Copyright © Journal of the International Phonetic Association 1992

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