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Elizabeth and Harry Orsman in their introduction to The New Zealand Dictionary note the HRT as a feature of NZE. The “High Rising Terminal” (HRT), is the use of a rising intonation in sentences that are statements. To outsiders these phrases sound like questions.
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Corpus of Spoken New Zealand English and the spoken component of ICE-NZ share 9 categories. Because informal conversational data in particular was so difficult to collect, there is an overlap of 339,530 words.
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The New Zealand dollar is used in New Zealand. A few traders do accept foreign currency, particularly in tourist destinations. As of April 2007 the conversion from US dollars to NZ dollars was approximately US$1=NZD1.35.
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More objective studies followed Arnold Wall’s publications, as there was a growing interest (seen in Sidney Baker’s 1941 New Zealand Slang) in the important work of codifying NZE. Tony Deverson summarizes the efforts made in the late twentieth century to codify the NZE lexis. Deverson distinguishes between two types of lexicographical projects centred on NZE. He notes that “there have been a number of so-called ‘inclusive’ or general purpose dictionaries of NZE (Orsman 1979, 1989; Burchfield 1986b; Deverson; et al) in which the specifically local and wider international vocabularies are integrated in a single alphabetical list” (Deverson 25). The problem with these types of dictionaries is that they do not identify the lexemes that are unique to NZE.
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