III. 4.3. The New Zealand English Pronunciation
This type of pronunciation has many features in common
with RP. The most striking phonetic features of the New Zealand
English pronunciation are the following:
a) the short vowel
N
is prolonged in the final unstressed po
sition:
city
/siti:/,
very
/ven:/ etc;
b) in the unstressed position /i/ becomes /э/. Phonologically
the opposition
/1
- э/ is neutralized in an unstressed position:
did
/dad/,
it is
/at az/,
charges
/t|a:d3sz/ etc.;
c) words like
dance, chance, glass
have two forms of pro
nunciation, one, which coincides with RP, the other - with GA:
/da:ns/ - /daens/, /tja:ns/-/tjaens/, /gla:s/ - /glaes/ etc.;
d) the diphthong /au/ is substituted by /аги/:
Do'stlaringiz bilan baham: |