Crystal

Question 1

Crystal (2008)

Answer 1

suggests that because English is fragmenting into so many global dialects, it raises questions of whether or not a global standard can be achieved

Question 2

Crystal (1997)

Answer 2

makes comparisons between idiographic and alphabetic languages

Question 3

Findings

Answer 3

huge variation between English and Asian languages due to different symbolic systems. English uses derivational/inflectional morphology where as logographic languages grammar and morphology is phonological

Question 4

Therefore..

Answer 4

East Asia may be idiosyncratic due to the phonetic patterns are very difficult to English which means that certain phonemes are hard to reproduce