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Language and signifying behavior in general, limits what we can say, think and do. Often below the level of our consciousness. Language, dialects and accents are popular terms not scientific terms. Languages: danish, norwegian; russian, ukrainian; malay, indonesia; serbia, Objective reasons: critical period for learning distant languages. Subjective reasons: foreign accent depends on both production and reception of speech: how people speak and how we hear them. Accents index involuntary ethnic divisions in our community. Accent classifications reflect relations across the worl and within community. Why do foreign language speakers get dubbed into accented english in. I don"t see nothin" wrong with hugo winnin" and oscar . Voluntary message: i think that hugo will win an oscar . Involuntary message: i am a working class person . Sociolects: variants that depend on social groupings. May occur in the same locality. Nat a matter of logic or correctness . Standard dialect: defined by upper middle class usage.