Linguistics 1028A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Dialect Continuum, North American English, Dialectology

• School: Western University
• Department: Linguistics
• Course: Linguistics 1028A/B
• Professor: Stephanie Kelly

Document Summary

Focus on rural areas because they are the least likely to change. Norms: non mobile older rural males. Form of language less likely to have changed. They are usually the head of a community; speak in formal context. Non-mobile not have had contact with other languages. They are not affected by other languages. Regional varieties: focused on studying regional variations. Rural areas tend to be more isolated than others/ less contact. Generally won"t have a high degree of education. Type of speech that remains largely the same: norms: non-mobile older rural males. Goals of dialectology: find features of regional dialect, find speakers from the region with the least outside influence, use the accumulation of data to propose dialect areas and boundaries. We are using an artificial boundary geopolitical map that shows the boundary based on borders that have been defined based on the politics of a particular country.