LING 2P10 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Linguistic Prescription, African American Vernacular English, Received Pronunciation
4 Oct 2016
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Quiz after reading week is on chapters 1-3. Descriptively: no, because it"s a casual variation in which people are communicating and understanding each other: discuss a few other instances that describe discriminatory accounts related to grammar. Received pronunciation vs. typical pronunciation the irish are often viewed as drunks because much of their speech slurs together accents countries and areas with their own/different dialects. Can"t nobody tink de way she do? (double negative) Ah on know what homey be doin. They do not provide grammatical meaning to a sentence. Similar to nouns, they can be identified in a sentence through the use of semantic, morphological and structural clues. These are called descriptive adjectives which fall into a category called prototypical adjectives. Prototypical adjectives: is generally easily identified because of its descriptive nature of a noun. When we think of adjectives, prototypical adjectives are typically the ones we think of.
