Throughout the second half of the 20th century, Australian English became increasingly accepted as the standard form of English used in this country. This acceptance was paralleled by Australian independence in a global marketplace. Your browser does not support the audio element. This Vowel Shift animation depicts general changes that have occurred in Australian English monophthongs over the past years and suggests some future change.
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Kids are very important in creating new accents. Read more: Curious Kids: How do scientists work out how old the Earth is? The Aussie accent, as we know it today, started more than years ago with the children of the convicts, soldiers and other European arrivals. The parents spoke with all different kinds of English accents because they came from many places in England.
But their children born in Australia formed friendship groups and started to talk in ways that were more like each other and less like their parents. In , two linguists named A. Mitchell and Arthur Delbridge wrote that there were three distinct accent types in Australia: broad think Steve Irwin , general think the hosts of an Australian morning TV show like Sunrise, for example and cultivated a bit more British-sounding, like Cate Blanchett.
The Aussie accent has been changing gradually for over years as the Australian society and people have changed, and now there are lots of different types of Aussie accents. There are Aussie accents from the city, from the country, from older and younger people, from different places in Australia, from Indigenous Australians, from people whose families came from Lebanon, Greece, Italy, Vietnam, China, India and lots more too.
But the Australian accents are different from the accents of America, or Canada, or New Zealand because those accents were created from kids growing up in those places with different communities and histories.
Follow our live coverage for the latest news on the coronavirus pandemic. Tracing the changes in Australian English from the First Fleet to present day is really about exploring the story of the nation, author Kel Richards says. The English language arrived in Australia a little more than years ago and since that time it has been levelled, sculpted and adapted to give Australians a specific dialect.
Beyond the influences and movements that shaped our use and understanding of English, Richards said we first needed to consider our concept of language. Richards has studied and interpreted the language's history and documented it in his new book, The Story of Australian English. According to Richards, the beginning of our Australian accent emerged following the arrival of European settlers in Around 50 years after the colony was established, Richards said English people arriving in Australia started to claim that Australians were speaking the "purest English on earth".
This discovery period of other ways of speaking and other words for things brought an acute awareness of the language and sound. About years on from the First Fleet, Richards said the arrival of the elocution movement in the s and s "ambushed" our language and changed it for good.
According to Richards, before this time general, middle Australian accents were predominant before cultivated and broad Australian accents arrived later, as a reaction to the elocution movement. There was no broad Australian, there was no cultivated Australian, it hadn't happened yet.
Population movements from the early military colony days to the stock industry, gold rushes and onwards undoubtedly had an impact on the variations in accent across the country.
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