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Publication details [#37579]

Guy, Gregory, Barbara Horvath, Julia Vonwiller, Elaine Daisley and Inge Rogers. 1986. An intonational change in progress in Australian English. Language in Society 15 (1) : 23–51.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

innovation | intonation | language change | motivation | social class

Language as a subject

English, Australian

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

ISBN

0047-4045

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

This paper argues that Australian Questioning Intonation has the social distribution features of a language change in progress and discusses social motivations of this innovation.