Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages 1
2. Table of contents 5
3. Map 7
4. Abbreviations & Glossary 8
5. Phonetic symbols 9
6. 1. New Zealand and New Zealand English 11
7. 2. andling New Zealand English lexis 23
8. 3. The dialectal origins of New Zealand English 40
9. 4. ‘No-one sounds like us?’ A comparison of New Zealand and other southern hemiphere Englishes 53
10. 5. New Zealand English across the generations 84
11. 6. The apparent merger of the front centring diphthongs — EAR and AIR — in New Zealand English 111
12. 7. Intonation and prosody in New Zealand English 146
13. 8. Variation in New Zealand English syntax and morphology 173
14. 9. As far as analysing grammatical variation and change in New Zealand English with very few tokens <is concerned/ø> 198
15. 10. Maori and Pakeha English 221
16. 11. Talking Maori or Pakeha in English 249
17. 12. ‘A deep depression covers the South Tasman Sea’ 279
18. 13. The cultural cringe revisited 297
19. Bibliography 325
20. Notes on the contributors 355
21. Index 358