The vowels

The acoustic structure of the vowels

Published values for formants 1 and 2 in the more monophthongal of New Zealand English vowels are presented in the table below. In the table headings, M means ‘male’ and F means ‘female’. A represents speakers from Auckland, analyzed by Hall (1976), C represents speakers from Christchurch analyzed by Maclagan (1982), and G represents speakers recorded in Dunedin but coming from throughout New Zealand and analyzed by Watson, Harrington, and Evans (1998). It is thus possible that there are diachronic and regional differences between the speakers sampled.