5.2 Features of Australian English外国文学名著导读.pdf

Chapter Five 5.2 Features of Australian English Pronunciation (1) Cultivated Australian (2) General Australian (3) Broad Australian Consonants （辅音） • Exercise 1: car, park, bird • Key: car, park, bird • Feature 1: Australian English is non- rhotic. The post-vocalic ‘r’ is not pronounced. Vowels （元音） RP Australian /i:/ /əɪ/ • tea, seat /u:/ /əʊ/ • two, boot Feature 2 : a vowel shift in monophthongs. • Influence from Cockney English. Diphthongs （双元音） RP Australian /eɪ/ /aɪ/ • day, mate /aɪ/ /ɔɪ/ • high, why Feature 3 : a vowel shift in diphthongs . • Influence from Cockney English. Explanation • Australian English shares many features with Cockney English. • General Australian is very close to Cockney, especially vowels . • The early immigrants, convicts from London, spoke Cockney English. Vocabulary Exercise: (1) She is a bushwhacker. (2) I am Aussie . (3) Let’s go bush. (4) You see a Koori? 有缘学习更多+谓ygd3076考证资料 Word Formation (1) Loanwords (2) Innovations (3) Clippings Loanwords Borrowings from the aboriginal languages. Reflecting the Australian life. Innovations (1) to go bush: to go into the countryside; (2) bush carpenter : a rough, amateur carpenter; (3) bushcraft: the ability to live in the bush; (4 ) bushranger: a bandit or outlaw; (5) bushwhacker: someone who