21 Jun 2021

Word: Professor Jen Hay on how we speak

From Lately, 10:30 pm on 21 June 2021

A look at the little things we do as we speak that most of us don't notice we were doing. They're called linking and intrusive r's and they tell us a fair bit about the New Zealand English dialect.

Professor Jennifer Hay with researchers at the New Zealand Institute of Language, Brain and Behaviour

Professor Jennifer Hay with researchers at the New Zealand Institute of Language, Brain and Behaviour Photo: Jennifer Hay