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Peer reviewedHolmes, Janet; Bell, Allan – Language Variation and Change, 1992
A social dialect survey of a New Zealand community documented a change in progress in the pronunciation of the vowels in words such as "air" and "ear." The data support a tentative interpretation that a shift to the variant with the closer onset for AIR words was initiated by middle-aged Pakeha women. (38 references) (Author/LB)
Descriptors: English, Foreign Countries, Language Usage, Language Variation
