A note on source material

For both New Zealand and Australian English there are several notable corpora that the authors here have drawn from: the Canterbury Corpus (containing recordings over the last 10 years made by students enrolled in the New Zealand English Course at the University of Canterbury), the Wellington Corpus of Written New Zealand English (comprising texts from 1986), the Australian Corpus of English held at Macquarie University (one million words of published material from 1986). Descriptions in the morphosyntax also derive from elicitation tests and popular surveys (local or national-wide), as well as secondary references.