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The consonant system  
  
422   09:54 صباحاً   date: 2024-04-19
Author : Laurie Bauer and Paul Warren
Book or Source : A Handbook Of Varieties Of English Phonology
Page and Part : 585-33


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The consonant system

The consonant system of New Zealand English is set out in the table. There is nothing unexpected in this system except possibly the lack of /M/, which is discussed below

 

Some conservative speakers still maintain a voiceless labial-velar fricative [M] in words like when and whimper, but this may be represented as /hw/ when it occurs.

 

It seems likely that where this feature is retained it now serves to mark regionalism or social status.

The glottal plosive [ʔ] may be argued to be gaining phonemic status in word final position in utterances such as [ʃΛʔ  Λʔshut up, though for many speakers it occurs only as an allophone of /t/ except where it is reinforcing one of [p, t, k, ʧ] .