Evaluating English Accents WorldWide Results: AUSTRALIA
Australia Personality Trait Means
99 University of Queensland students
68 females, 31 males, 1 missing, mean age 19.7
(collected by Cynthia Gallois and Jeffrey Pittam)
Australians' Accent Guesses
majority/plurality percentage for each speaker in boldface;
major erroneous guesses italicised
Points to note:
The AusE male is rated highly in status, above the RP-speaking EE male.
The AusE male and AusE female are rated highly in solidarity, but still well below
the two NAm voices.
The NZE female is rated more highly in solidarity by the Australians than she is
by the New Zealanders.
The EE female voice is rated lower in power than she is in New Zealand.
Created by:
Owen Baxter,
Modified: 13 Mar 2002, Made with Macintosh
