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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 September 2009
Data from these speakers are not included in the various analyses reported elsewhere in this book. For an explanation of terms used and a fuller description of the variables, see Chapter 6.
1 Australia
Mr George Firth was born in Tasmania in 1875 and came to New Zealand in his early twenties. His speech does not stand out from that of other Mobile Unit speakers of comparable age. Like the New Zealand-born, Mr Firth has some relatively advanced features; he uses raised dress and trap vowels and diphthong-shifted mouth and price vowels, he is non-rhotic and uses schwa in unstressed syllables. Like some New Zealand-born speakers, he also has some relatively conservative features, such as the thought vowel in off, across and so on. Unlike most modern Australian speakers, but like other New Zealand-born Mobile Unit speakers, he uses the start vowel in the dance class of words.
2 Scotland
Mrs Susan McFarlane was born in Scotland around 1845 and came to New Zealand aged thirty-three. Her speech differs considerably from that of the New Zealand-born Mobile Unit speakers of comparable age (see Trudgill, Maclagan and Lewis 2003).
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