ANT102H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Tok Pisin, Haitian Creole, Rhoticity In English
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Language variation: dialect (one category of language variation, regional, geographic variation, social, status variation, registers, functional variation/connotation, standard and non-standard dialects, e. g. Received pronunciation (rp english: use of non-rhotic r, e. g. Victa (instead of victor); bigga (instead of bigger: not associated with a region however a lot of people in england speak it, e. g. Standard american and canadian english: use of rhotic r, e. g. Isle of france (parisian french: versus provencal, langue d"oc: dialects distinct from what was spoke in. Northern france: other language varieties, pidgin (business, simplified languages, limited usage, often with a particular function (e. g. trade, used by people who also speak another native language (it is an intermediary, e. g. Pidgin wolof (the language of the slave trade), tok pisin: creole (to breed, create, syncretic languages, drawing from various other languages, e. g. Haitian creole, maltese: lingua franca, link people who do not share a language, comprised of various other languages (italian, spanish, french,
