%0 Journal Article %A Fernández Gutiérrez, Francisco %T New Zealand and American English: Comparing their Origins and Linguistic Development %D 2021 %U http://hdl.handle.net/10498/25542 %X The following paper presents a comparison between New Zealand and American English through a diachronic and synchronic study of each territory in terms of settlement, melting pot, origins and subsequent development of the transplanted English, national identity and vocabulary. It also attempts to demonstrate the point to which these former colonies have distanced themselves from the model of Great Britain. %K New Zealand English %K American English %K settlement %K national identity %K colonies %K Great Britain %~ Universidad de Cádiz