LINA02H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Phoneme, Ingroups And Outgroups, Fixin
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In fact: there are many different grammars of english, individual speakers control different varieties which they can use in different situations. Question: within a language, certain speakers speak a dialect of that language and other speaker don"t speak a dialect of that language: true, false. Factors: mutual intelligibility, social and political factors, but: A language is a dialect with an army and a navy max weinriech. In common usage, the term language is often tied to a entity with political borders. For linguists: languages are not mutually intelligible and dialects are mutually intelligible (but ) Mutually intelligible forms of a language that differ in systematic ways. Everybody speaks at least one dialect of at least one language. When dialects become mutually unintelligible, then they become separate languages. Question: which of the following reflects the concept accent : phonological/phonetic difference, lexical differences, morphological differences, syntactic differences. Slang: highly informal language with special vocab.
