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    4/17/2018 Yule Chapter 18: Language and Regional Variation Flashcards | Quizlet

    Yule Chapter 18: Language and Regional 21 terms Richard_Williams53

    Variation

    Linguistic geography Aspects of language variation based on where the


    language is used.

    Standard Language Features of only one variety of structures and words of a


    language.

    Accent Everyone has one! It's how you speak!

    Dialect Differences in features such as vocabulary and grammar,


    as well as some aspects of pronunciation.

    Dialectology the study of dialects.

    Mutual Intelligibility The ability to understand two different dialects of the


    same language. Used to distinguish two different dialects
    of the same language (whose speakers can understand
    each other) and two different languages (whose speakers
    can't understand each other.)

    NORMS non-mobile, older, rural, male speakers. Selected as they


    are assumed to be less likely to have influences from
    outside the region on their speech.

    Isogloss represents a boundary between the areas with regard to


    one linguistic term

    Dialect boundary When a number of isoglosses come together,


    overlapping each other on a map, a more solid line
    called a dialect boundary may be drawn.

    Dialect continuum Regional variation as existing along a continuum rather


    than having sharp breaks from one region to the next.

    Bidialectical A speaker of two different dialects. Often occurs when


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    one person moves back and forth across borders. The


    speaker will often shift depending on where or who he is
    talking with. Most of us grow up with this, our dirty street
    speek, and our classy class speech.

    Bilingual Two distinct languages known.

    Biliguialism Occurs more often when a minority group lives in an area


    with a different majority language. French and English in
    canada, most learn french to speak among their families
    and friends, but learn english to get along in the society.

    Diglossia there is a "low" variety, acquired locally and used for


    everyday affairs, and a "high" pr special variety, learned in
    school and used for important matters.

    Language Planning Have to plan which variety or varieties of the languages


    spoken in the country are to be used for official business.

    Pidgin Variety of a language that developed from some


    practical purpose, such as trading, among groups of
    people who had a lot of contact, but who did not know
    each other's languages.

    Lexifer The main source of words in the pidgin

    Creole When a pidgin becomes the first language of a social


    community. The pidgin develops beyond its role as a
    trade or contact language.

    Creolization Development from pidgin to creole

    decreolization the retreat from the use of the creole by those who have
    greater contact with a standard variety of the language.

    Post-creole continuum Range of varieties between a creole and its "higher"


    variety of the language.

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