Aboriginal studies

Question 1

Name other words for “prestigious dialect” and “least prestigious dialect”

Answer 1

Acrolect and basilect

Question 2

define simultaneous language acquisition vs consecutive language aqcuisition

Answer 2

simultaneous acquisition= two languages from birth (up to 3 years)
consecutive acquisiion= learnign a second langauge later on in life

Question 3

3 types of English in australia today are…

Answer 3

SAE, Ethnocultural varieties(arabic english, lebanese english, greek english…)Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander English.

Question 4

Define Sociolinguistics

Answer 4

The study of language in society

Question 5

Define types of speaker variation

Answer 5

within speaker variation: style (who we speak to, where we speak), register (specific set of vocabulary eg hobbies, cycling, we choose these based what group we are with)
between speaker variation: regional dialects, sociolects, genderlects

Question 6

Name 5 types of language variation:

Answer 6

Sounds(phonetic variation), words(lexical variation), meaning(semantic variation) , grammar(syntactic), social and cultural use of language(pragmatic variation)

Question 7

name examples for the 5 langauge variations for SAE

Answer 7

Regional - very few
Phonetic - /plant/ vs /plant/ adelaide vs melbourne
Semantic -
syntactic -plural you/y’s or gender markign on nounsg food and drink feminine “(h)er”
lexical - fitz-polony-devon-stras or cozzies-bathing suit