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    Australian English speakers often use rising intonation at the end of sentences instead of falling intonation, which can make statements sound like questions. Additionally, Australians frequently eliminate pronunciation of the letter "r" and produce an "ah" sound when pronouncing endings like "ure", "re", and "er" due to the positioning of the tongue. While American English typically stresses the last syllable, Australian and British English tend to place stress on the previous syllable.

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    Australian English speakers often use rising intonation at the end of sentences instead of falling intonation, which can make statements sound like questions. Additionally, Australians frequently eliminate pronunciation of the letter "r" and produce an "ah" sound when pronouncing endings like "ure", "re", and "er" due to the positioning of the tongue. While American English typically stresses the last syllable, Australian and British English tend to place stress on the previous syllable.

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    Prosodic Features

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    Australian English speakers often use rising intonation at the end of sentences instead of falling intonation, which can make statements sound like questions. Additionally, Australians frequently eliminate pronunciation of the letter "r" and produce an "ah" sound when pronouncing endings like "ure", "re", and "er" due to the positioning of the tongue. While American English typically stresses the last syllable, Australian and British English tend to place stress on the previous syllable.

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    Prosodic features.

    Intonaton : Australian English speakers often use rising instead of falling intonation at the
    end of sentences which are not questions.

    Australian accents sometimes give the impression that make statements sound like a
    questions because they (Australian people) usually use intonation at the end of sentences. In
    addition, Australian also eliminates the pronunciation of "r" when pronouncing.

    The Australian speaker's tongue, low and back, produces a sound 'ah' sound to pronounce
    endings such as "ure", "re", "er".

    e.g : treasure, centre, water.

    Stress : Usually American English stresses the last syllable, while British and Australian
    English stress the previous syllable.

    e.g : Adult /’æd. ʌlt/ (australian) and /ə’dʌlt/ (american)

    Garage / ’gær . ɑ:ʒ / (australian) and / gə ‘rɑ:ʒ / (american)

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