The time-consuming nature of coding sociophonetic variables that are typically treated as
categorical represents an impediment to addressing research questions around these …

An American-influenced singing accent, referred to here as Pop Song English (PSE), is
common in popular music throughout (and beyond) the Anglophone world. This article …

This paper investigates the articulation of approximant/ɹ/in New Zealand English (NZE), and
tests whether the patterns documented for rhotic varieties of English hold in a non-rhotic …

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 …

Although there have been many studies of New Zealand English (NZE) vowels, little has
been written about the nurse vowel/ɜ:/. This study uses data from three groups of Māori …

This thesis presents a nationwide survey of selected phonemic and phonetic variables used
by New Zealand school children. New Zealand English (NZE) is often described as …

This paper provides an overview of the chief characteristics of a relatively new variety of
English, New Zealand English. After a brief historical sketch of the development of English in …

This paper provides an initial analysis into the phonetic and phonological features of Niuean
English as spoken in the New Zealand Niuean community. The paper highlights similarities …

Rhoticity is highly variable across English varieties. Traditionally, descriptions of English
have distinguished between “rhotic” and “non-rhotic” varieties. However, recent description …

The current paper argues that speakers of Tongan English, an emergent variety spoken in
the Kingdom of Tonga, may use rhoticity to construct a cosmopolitan and globally oriented …