Chapter 2 Flashcards
18% of the population speaks a language other than English at home
True
dialects
variations of a specific language
accent
restricted to speech sound production differences and different rhythms if speech. Accent is a phonologic and prosodic phenomenon
registers
variations in language use that depend on speaking situations
African American English
Black English, Black English Vernacular, Black Dialect, and Ebonics
is a product of geographic, social, and cultural factors.
code switching
bilingual speakers, while in the company of similarly bilingual speakers, often switch back and forth from their first to second language. Such shifts in language during the same conversational episode.
language mixing
may involve words from the two languages used in a single sentence or different sentences may be spoken in different languages.
Lau vs. Nichols
The residents of San Francisco’s Chinatown argued that their children who did not speak English well were denied equal educational opportunity.
Position paper on social dialects
It is the position of AsHA that no dialectal variety of English is a disorder or a pathological form of a speech or language.
To make a distinction between a disorder and a dialectal variation in English possibly due to the first language of the speaker
the clinician must know the basics of the minority language rules
The ASHA position paper recognizes that speakers of minority dialects may wish to acquire the dialect of the government, industry, mass media, sciences, and arts. In such cases,
the speech language pathologist can make themselves available to provide elective services to such a speaker.
Describe at least three variables that contribute to the development of dialects of a given language.
geographic regions
socioeconomic levels
speaking situations
subgroup membership
