User:Hazarasp/idiolect

Here's a series of (mainly phonological) notes on my idiolect (to expand on later).

General information
My idiolect is a mildly unusual form of New Zealand English, as such, it has the following features:


 * It is non-rhotic, with linking r (though not consistently)
 * It has (though not 100% consistently). Several mergers (still in progress) between the resulting vowels exist.
 * It has the (i.e. the vowels in those two words are the same)
 * The wine-whine merger is pretty much complete in most NZE nowadays.


 * For more, see.

Certain features make it notable within New Zealand English:


 * It has th-fronting; i.e. three and free are homophones. However, initially former is.
 * *-ing* is pronounced (this crops up in a few other lexical items as well).
 * The state of my weak-vowel merger is weird (as indicated by the lexical sets).
 * Before, the nasals  can be dropped; occasionally words with no etymological nasal acquire one.
 * Final have mostly fell together. Here,  is used as a cover symbol (though the actual realisation is  quite a bit lower).

Lexical sets
If you don't know what a lexical set is; click .

Pronunciations to note
Non-L-vocalised variants of words are pretty much predictable and will only be mentioned when deserving special notice. I plan to alphabetise this at some point and add sources for some of the words included to it.

Verb forms
IPA is given for forms with an unusual pronunciation; forms are listed in order from common to rare.

Selected obsolete members
Some of these are still current in dialects; stride still has wide currency.

Selected lost members
(i.e. members of the class which are not strong in "mainstream" Modern English)

Selected obsolete members
Some of these are still current in dialects.

Selected lost members
(i.e. members of the class which are not strong in "mainstream" Modern English)

Selected obsolete members
Some of these are still current in dialects; smart still has reasonably wide currency.

Selected lost members
(i.e. members of the class which are not strong in "mainstream" Modern English)

Selected obsolete members
Some of these are still current in dialects.

Selected lost members
(i.e. members of the class which are not strong in "mainstream" Modern English)