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Dialects: Sociolinguistics/ Language in Society
Dialects: Sociolinguistics/ Language in Society
Dialect Atlases
Commercial ties between major Dialect maps and dialect atlases
cities in New England and plot dialect differences
England were close, and Southern geographically
families were sending their
Dialect areas can be seen by
children to England to be educated
concentrations of linguistic
This [r] dropping spread to the US differences
and can now be found in dialects
The lines drawn on these maps to
of the South, Boston, and New
separate the areas are called
York
isoglosses
When you cross an isogloss, you
Phonological Differences are going from one dialect area to
another
There are systematic Bundles of isoglosses can define a
pronunciation differences between regional dialect
American and British English
For example, Americans put stress
on the first syllable of a Social Dialects
polysyllabic word, and British
Dialects can also stem from social
speakers put the stress on the
divisions, which are called social
second syllable in words like
dialects
cigarette, applicable, formidable,
The social divisions that can lead
laboratory
to different social dialects include
Americans may pronounce the
gender, socioeconomic status,
first vowel in data as [e] or [] but
religion, race and ethnicity, and
vast majority of British speakers
country of origin
would only use [e]
Christians, Muslims, and Jews all
speak different varieties of Arabic
Lexical Differences in Baghdad
In India, people often speak
Regional may also differ lexically different dialects based on social
British: lift American: elevator caste
Chicano English