Hi Luciano

 

Thanks for the clarification. I have just checked with my colleagues at the New Zealand Dictionary Centre, which is part of the school I am in, as well as with other colleagues.  I'm afraid there is no entirely reliable dictionary of this sort for NZE. The New Zealand Pocket Oxford Dictionary (ed. Tony Deverson, second ed. 1997) does have transcriptions, and does give alternants for cases where there are some. However, on looking at a few key examples (data, harass, yoghurt, for instance), I find that the ordering of alternants does not always reflect the preferred pronunciation that you would hear in NZ.

But this dictionary might be a starting point for you, provided you use it with caution. If you need some NZers to check any examples, you could send a list and I’ll ask some native informants (I am not a native NZE speaker).

 

Best

 

Paul

 

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Subject: more on local dictionaries with pronunciation

 

Dear all,

I hope you can suggest any good dictionary for New Zealand and South

African English with accurate and reliable phonEMic transcriptions

for actual NZ and SA pronunciations? And perhaps one for Ireland

(Eire) and India, as well?

 

I thank you those who have already sent me some phonETic indications.

But I know fairly well their characteristics (in fact I'm writing a

book on the different pronunciations of English, in detail, as a

world language, including intonation, not only for native speakers).

What I really want is to be able to discover possible differences in

the distribution of phonemes between different accents (something

like "shone", "either", "song", "lost", "last", "Mary", "hurry", &c

&c).

For Canadian and Australian English I have some satisfactry

dictionaries. I can't say the same for those about South African

English that I have...

 

Many thanks

Luciano Canepari

Dept. of Speech Sciences

University of Venice (Italy)

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LuCa

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