LING 204 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Appalachia, Jutes, British Jamaican
6 Dec 2018
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Each county; some cities / towns have entirely different dialects. Reflects settlement of germanic tribes: angles, saxons, jutes in england 1500 years ago. And geographic isolation from each other (independent development. : canada. Not all populated though: australia and new zealand. 11/6/18: attitudes towards speech varieties most often reflect attitudes toward the people/ group that speaks them, where did american dialects come from, settlements. R less comes from se england new england and coastal south. 11/15: interspeaker variation: social dialects and language change. John baughs matched guise experiment same person pretending different dialects to see how person reacts. Ex: hispanic accent less likely to be rented a room: ethnic dialects. Of ethnic groups that share aspects of culture, identity and community. Where a community is formed around an ethnic group; and social identities include ethnicity. Often more than one dialect for each group. Ex: more than one for latinos cuban, mexican, etc. Some ethcni groups have historcialy spoken other languages.
