Summary of Australian English by F. Cox and S. Palethorpe

             Felicity Cox and Sallyanne Palethorpe, scholars from Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia took an attempt to describe phonetic pecularities of the Australian dialect of the English language. First of all, they differentiated between three types of Aussie English: Standard Australian English (SAusE) which is dominant and used by the majority of speakers, the Aboriginal and Ethnocultural varieties that enable speakers to express their cultural identity within multicultural Australian context. Even though, nowadays SAusE tends to resemble the Received Pronunciation of British English, it owns some peculiar features. They are predominantly connected with vowels; however, the authors of the article paid more attention to the consonantal features. The most significant of them is /l/ vocalization. For instance, the words milk, hurl, and noodle are pronounced as [miuk], [h3:u], and [nu:du]. Then, the palatal /j/ occurs after coronals before /u:/; for example, new [nju:]. When the /j/ happens in alveolar stop or fricative clusters, yod coalescences generally lead to that tune [tju:n] becomes [tSu:n]. SAusE is basically non-rhotic. However, linking /r/ occurs in connected speech, either within words or across word boundaries: far out [fa:raeot]. Intrusive /r/ can also be found in Aussie English. For example, draw it sounds as [dro:ret] as well as drawing is to be pronounced as [dro:rin]. Presented changes do not exhaust all the modifications of Standard Australian English. They are far more numerous, but the majority of them has not been studied so far.