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In New Zealand, RP is used as pronunciation model for

educated speakers.

In Australia, there is no or little geographical variation in
pronunciation

Memorization

 Distinguish monolingualism vs diglossia (bilingualism)

 A language which is a mother tongue of several nations is
called a polyethnic language or a nationally heterogeneous

language

 A lingua franca is a language used as means of
communication by speakers who do not have a native language

in common The largest world lingua francas in use today

include English and Mandarin Chinese
 A pidgin language is the language used for the purpose of

communication between speakers of mutually unintelligible
languages

 A Creole is a pidgin language which has become the mother

tongue of a community when within multiligual community,
increasing number of people begin to use a pidgin as their

principal means of communication

Compare English and Pidgin English

English Pidgin English

A hungry man doesn't sit Hongri man no de set dan
down in won pies

one place [Romaine 1994:174] Plenti man no get woman
Lots of men have no wives

Grass Gras

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