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Peer reviewedMeyerhoff, Miriam; Niedzielski, Nancy – Journal of Sociolinguistics, 2003
Presents a study showing that New Zealanders have very different attitudes to variants that sociolinguists have lumped together in the past suggests that globalization with localization is an important principle for variationists to take into account. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: English, Foreign Countries, Globalization, Language Attitudes
Peer reviewedTrudgill, Peter; Gordon, Elizabeth; Lewis, Gillian – Journal of Sociolinguistics, 1998
Discusses two conflicting hypotheses concerning the nature of the New Zealand English short vowel system. Concludes that both hypotheses are to a certain extent wrong and to a certain extent correct. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Diachronic Linguistics, Dialects, English, Foreign Countries
Peer reviewedBayard, Donn; Weatherall, Ann; Gallois, Cynthia; Pittam, Jeffery – Journal of Sociolinguistics, 2001
Describes a series of evaluations of gender pairs of New Zealand English, Australian English, American English, and received-pronunciation-type-English English voices by over 400 students in New Zealand, Australia, and the United States. Twenty-two personality and demographic traits were evaluated by Likert-scale questionnaires. Results are…
Descriptors: Demography, Foreign Countries, Language Attitudes, Language Variation
