LING 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Isogloss, Toque, Lexical Item
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How and why do languages vary? geographical variation language vary in between social classes language and gender and age. Language variation all language vary everybody has their own idiolect social factors: gender, socio-economic class, age regional variation. Language/dialect/accent for linguists the term dialect referees to specific variety of a language. Accent is also neutral term accent refers to the specific pronunciation patterns used by a speaker everybody has an accent. Phonological: caught/cot merged in dialect different in others. Phonetic: variation involves difference in the pronunciation of particular phoneme (sound) The /i/ vowel in new zealand english is centralized the nz vowel in kit, bin sound similar to the vowel in bit in some other dialects of english. The /e/ vowel is high, the vowel in dead, bet, sounds similar to vowel in did. Chain shift: several vowels change in a stepwise fashion. The nz vowels have undergone a dramatic chain shift.
