New configurations: The balance of British and American English features in Australian and Canadian English∗

Lexical Shift in Working Class New Zealnd English

“…AusE, closely related to NZE both in its traditional standards for many of these pairs and also in the increased exposure its speakers have had to USE over the last couple of decades, has shown a similar shift away from film to movie. In a 1987 study of over 240,000 words of written AusE, Peters & Fee (1989) found that although there was definite conservatism in the style of weekly magazines, in newspaper texts, movie was much more acceptable, occurring 54 times compared with the use of film 91 times.…”

A taste of Kiwi: Attitudes to accent, speaker gender, and perceived ethnicity across the Tasman∗

“…And of course orthography(Bayard 1989:53;Peters & Fee 1989). 36 Downloaded by [Queensland University of Technology] at 03:24 02 November 2014 A TASTE OF KIWI…”