The New Zealand accent is characterized by its vowel shifts and soft intonations, while the Australian accent is known for its distinctive nasal quality and rising inflection.
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Aussie Taryn East adds, "more specifically, an inbred, lower class, unintelligent Aussie with a strong, nasal accent... probably the closest equivalent would be hillbillys." But apparently, just as hillbilly (and redneck, for that matter) are not always negative terms, neither is ocker. ...
that most impressed other doctors and patients. "He wasn't Svengali-like; he didn't have this Mesmer voice," said Dr. Philip R. Muskin, a psychiatrist at Columbia. "He was a regular guy with this Midwestern accent who explained in a very straightforward way that hypnosis was something yo...
One of the distinctive characteristics of the MAusE accent is that /iː/ is typically onglided so that it may be considered diphthongal for some speakers (Harrington et al. 1997; Cox et al. 2014; Elvin et al. 2016; Williams et al. 2018). Cox et al. (2014) used both target and ...