While there is a renewed interest in voice user interfaces (VUI) in HCI, little attention has
been paid to the design of VUI voice output beyond intelligibility and naturalness. We draw …

Recent sociolinguistic analyses have emphasised that a diversification of tools is needed to
isolate the social meaning of variation (eg, Campbell-Kibler, 2010; Drager, 2016). Yet to …

This thesis examines the flexibility and context-sensitivity of speech perception by looking at
a domain not often explored in the study of language cognition—popular music. Three …

bro'Town is a popular animated comedy whose language is that of stylized performance. It
deals with the adventures of a group of five teenage Pasifika boys growing up in Auckland …

There has been a surprising dearth of research on language maintenance and shift in New
Zealand over the last decade. This thesis addresses this gap by examining incipient patterns …

TH-stopping, reported in the speech of working-class and immigrant groups across the US,
has long been considered a regional feature of New York City English (NYCE). Its origins in …

This article examines the transfer of (TH)-fronting, a phonological feature of African
American English, into the speech of white speakers from South Philadelphia. While most …

New Zealand English (NZE), like the other varieties of English discussed in the first section
of this Handbook, falls into Kachru's category of 'inner circle'Englishes (Kachru 1992). NZE is …

This study acoustically analyses the vowel space of adult New Zealand English speakers
from a predominantly Pasifika suburb in Auckland (Papatoetoe). These speakers (n= 13) are …

Investigating local linguistic norms to discover larger patterns of language behaviour has
been standard practice in sociolinguistic study. Looking closely at socially salient variables …