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■ #5978. ONZE --- Origins of New Zealand English Project [link][new_zealand_english][variety][language_change][bibliography]

　ニュージーランド英語 (new_zealand_english) の起源を探る調査が1980年代後半から活発化してきている．その中心的な役割を果たしてきたのが ONZE (Origins of New Zealand English Project) というプロジェクトだ．ニュージーランドのカンタベリ大学が拠点となっている．
　Williams (1998--99) による簡単な紹介を読んでみよう．

For the origins of the New Zealand accent, a unique set of data are available in the form of recordings made throughout rural New Zealand in the 1940s, among them some of the first New-Zealand-born speakers of English which allowed people on the Origins of New Zealand English Project (ONZE n.d.) to document the embryonic stages of the New Zealand accent.

　ONZE の調査とその成果については，Gordon (et al.) や Trudgill の一連の研究が詳しい．以下に主要な論著の書誌を挙げておく．

　・ Gordon, Elizabeth. "That Colonial Twang: New Zealand Speech and New Zealand Identity." Culture and Identity in New Zealand. Ed. David Novitz and Bill Willmott. Wellington: GP Books, 1989. 77--90.
　・ Gordon, Elizabeth. "The Origins of New Zealand Speech: The Limits of Recovering Historical Information from Written Records." English World-Wide 19(19): 61--85.
　・ Gordon, Elizabeth and Andrea Sudbury. "The History of Southern Hemisphere Englishes." Alternative Histories of English. Ed. Richard Watts and Peter Trudgill. London: Routledge, 2002. 67--86.
　・ Gordon, Elizabeth, Lyle Campbell, Jennifer Hay, Margaret MacLagan, Andrea Sudbury, and Peter Trudgill. New Zealand English: Its Origins and Evolution. Cambridge/New York: Cambridge UP, 2004.
　・ Trudgill, Peter. Dialects in Contact. Oxford: Blackwell, 1986.
　・ Trudgill, Peter. "A Window on the Past: 'Colonial Lag' and New Zealand Evidence for the Phonology of Nineteenth-Century English." American Speech 74(3): 227--39.
　・ Trudgill, Peter. New Dialect Formation: The Inevitability of Colonial Englishes. Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 2004.
　・ Trudgill, Peter, Elizabeth Gordon, Gillian Lewis, and Margaret Maclagan. "Determinism in New-Dialect Formation and the Genesis of New Zealand English." Journal of Linguistics 36: 299--318.

　・ Williams, Colin H. "Varieties of English: Australian/New Zealand English." Chapter 127 of English Historical Linguistics: An International Handbook. 2 vols. Ed. Alexander Bergs and Laurel J. Brinton. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 2012. 1995--2012.

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