Lang Section C quick example Que Cards

Question 1

Ive lived in mebourne my whole life… a Melbourne accent’
Bliszzyk April 2022

Answer 1

celery vs salary
elegy vs allergy
alaphant vs elephant

words can be ‘misunderstood by out of towners’

‘younger speakers…tend to instigate change’ (pedestrian 2022)

Question 2

Are Melburnians mangling the language
–> Obrien

Answer 2

Malbourne vs Melbourne
Allan vs Ellen

‘little, slight differences… start impacting on the larger system’
‘people start taking WITH features of other peoples speech’

Question 3

Naur yeah; your performing linguistic magic when you pronounce the two letter word ‘no’. Here’s why.
Hume
dec 2022.

Answer 3

Naur vs no
No=triphthong= hard to pronounce–> archetypical Naur pronounciation.
negative adverb
‘Vowels are the emotional component of words and consonants are the intellect’

Question 4

Decoding the Melbourne Iccent
The age

Answer 4

discourse particle ‘yeah nah’= very common, in Kate Burridge research article, she states it it used when ‘potential for misunderstanding is high’.

‘part time-buyer, part conversation-helper’