Linguistics 1028A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: African American Vernacular English, Isogloss, Dialectology

• School: Western University
• Department: Linguistics
• Course: Linguistics 1028A/B
• Professor: Prof.S.Kelly

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British vs. canadian vs. usa o o o o. Regional, phonetic, or phonological differences (most times categorical) Be (british english) -> she has just left or she has already left. Ae (american english) -> she just left or she already left. Vowel merger o o o o o o. Methodology: find speakers: least outside influence norms, for each speaker: questionnaire, record responses, tabulate results, using results propose dialect areas and boundaries. Still analyzing dialect data from surveys conducted in the. Can be drawn to separate language varieties based on. Isogloss: a line drawn on a dialect map marking the boundary of an area where a particular linguistic feature is found. Speech communities that are isolated in some way seem to preserve older ways of speaking. These communities can act as a sort of linguistic time machine. Newfoundland (distinct and regionally variable) o o o.