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Australia's accent only now starting to adopt small changes

Australia has had a largely uniform accent up to now

You can travel the breadth of Australia and, if you think about it, find very little variation in the regional English-Australian accent across the country. Now, researchers are looking at that accent and what variations do exist. There is actually an increasing multicultural influence on today's Australian accents.


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By Shirin Noori, Maya Jamieson

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You can travel the breadth of Australia and, if you think about it, find very little variation in the regional English-Australian accent across the country. Now, researchers are looking at that accent and what variations do exist. There is actually an increasing multicultural influence on today's Australian accents.



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