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Three chairs for New Zealand English: the EAR/AIR merger

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 October 2008

Janet Holmes
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Abstract

Some emerging features of speech that distinguish usage in New Zealand from the rest of the Anglophone world

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English Today , Volume 11 , Issue 3 , July 1995 , pp. 14 - 18
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1995

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