Unit8阅读教程第二册.ppt

Reading 3 Let’s listen to English spoken by Australians. IPA charts for English dialects Australian pronunciation Most of the Australian specialties in vocabulary derive from English local dialects. On the other hand, in recent years the influence of American English has been apparent... Thus we find American truck, elevator, and freeway alongside British petrol, boot (of a car) and tap. (Crystal, 1988: 240). Few aboriginal words were borrowed, though a third of the place names is taken from their languages, with in increasing number in our days (B?hr, 1974: 274). A short excerpt from Aussi