Editing Australian English (section)

===Consonants===
There is little variation in the sets of [[consonant]]s used in different English dialects but there are variations in how these consonants are used. Australian English is no exception.

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;"
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|+ Australian English consonant phonemes{{sfnp|Cox|Palethorpe|2007|p=343}}
! colspan="2" |
! [[Labial consonant|Labial]]
! [[Interdental consonant|Dental]]
! [[Alveolar consonant|Alveolar]]
! [[Postalveolar consonant|Post-<br />alveolar]]
! [[Palatal consonant|Palatal]]
! [[Velar consonant|Velar]]
! [[Glottal consonant|Glottal]]
|-
! colspan="2" | [[Nasal consonant|Nasal]]
| {{IPA link|m}}
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| {{IPA link|n}}
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| {{IPA link|ŋ}}
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! rowspan="2" | [[Stop consonant|Plosive]]
! {{small|[[fortis consonant|fortis]]}}
| {{IPA link|p}}
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| {{IPA link|t}}
| 
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| {{IPA link|k}}
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! {{small|[[lenis consonant|lenis]]}}
| {{IPA link|b}}
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| {{IPA link|d}}
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| {{IPA link|ɡ}}
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! rowspan="2" | [[Affricate consonant|Affricate]]
! {{small|[[fortis consonant|fortis]]}}
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| {{IPA link|tʃ}}
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! {{small|[[lenis consonant|lenis]]}}
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| {{IPA link|dʒ}}
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! rowspan="2" | [[Fricative consonant|Fricative]]
! {{small|[[fortis consonant|fortis]]}}
| {{IPA link|f}}
| {{IPA link|θ}}
| {{IPA link|s}}
| {{IPA link|ʃ}}
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| {{IPA link|h}}
|-
! {{small|[[lenis consonant|lenis]]}}
| {{IPA link|v}}
| {{IPA link|ð}}
| {{IPA link|z}}
| {{IPA link|ʒ}}
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! rowspan="2" | [[Approximant consonant|Approximant]]
! {{small|[[Central consonant|central]]}}
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| {{IPA link|ɹ}}
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| {{IPA link|j}}
| {{IPA link|w}}
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! {{small|[[Lateral consonant|lateral]]}}
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| {{IPA link|l}}
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Australian English is uniformly [[Rhoticity in English|non-rhotic]]; that is, the {{IPA|/ɹ/}} sound does not appear at the end of a syllable or immediately before a consonant.<ref name=":0" /> As with many non-rhotic dialects, [[Linking R|linking {{IPA|/ɹ/|cat=no}}]] can occur when a word that has a final {{angbr|r}} in the spelling comes before another word that starts with a vowel. An [[Linking and intrusive R#Intrusive R|intrusive {{IPA|/ɹ/|cat=no}}]] may similarly be inserted before a vowel in words that do not have {{angbr|r}} in the spelling in certain environments, namely after the long vowel {{IPA|/oː/}} and after word final {{IPA|/ə/}}. This can be heard in "law-r-and order", where an intrusive R is voiced between the AW and the A.

As with North American English, [[intervocalic alveolar flapping]] is a feature of Australian English: prevocalic {{IPA|/t/}} and {{IPA|/d/}} surface as the [[alveolar tap]] {{IPA|[ɾ]}} after [[sonorant]]s other than {{IPA|/m, ŋ/}} as well as at the end of a word or morpheme before any vowel in the same breath group. Examples of this feature are that the following pairs are pronounced similarly or identically: ''latter'' and ''ladder'', as well as ''rated'' and ''raided''.

[[English consonant-cluster reductions#Yod-dropping|''Yod''-dropping]] generally occurs after {{IPA|/s/}}, {{IPA|/l/}}, {{IPA|/z/}}, {{IPA|/θ/}} but not after {{IPA|/t/}}, {{IPA|/d/}} and {{IPA|/n/}}.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Filppula |first1=Markku |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Qdk-DgAAQBAJ |title=The Oxford Handbook of World Englishes |last2=Klemola |first2=Juhani |last3=Sharma |first3=Devyani |date=2017-02-14 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-067144-0 |pages=412 |language=en}}</ref> Accordingly, ''suit'' is pronounced as {{IPA|/sʉːt/}}, ''lute'' as {{IPA|/lʉːt/}}, ''Zeus'' as {{IPA|/zʉːs/}} and ''enthusiasm'' as {{IPA|/enˈθʉːziːæzəm/}}. Other cases of {{IPA|/sj/}} and {{IPA|/zj/}}, as well as {{IPA|/tj/}} and {{IPA|/dj/}}, have [[English consonant-cluster reductions#Yod-coalescence|coalesced]] to {{IPA|/ʃ/}}, {{IPA|/ʒ/}}, {{IPA|/tʃ/}} and {{IPA|/dʒ/}} respectively for many speakers. {{IPA|/j/}} is generally retained in other [[consonant cluster]]s.{{citation needed|date=May 2023}}

In common with most varieties of [[Scottish English]] and [[American English]], the phoneme {{IPA|/l/}} is pronounced by Australians as a "dark" (velarised) ''l'' ({{IPA|[ɫ]}}) in almost all positions, unlike other dialects such as [[Received Pronunciation]], [[Hiberno-English|Hiberno (Irish) English]], etc.