dialects and accents

Question 1

what is a dialect?

Answer 1

a variety of a language associated with a geographical region or social group

Question 2

what is an idiolect?

Answer 2

variations by individual speakers of the same dialect

Question 3

what is an accent?

Answer 3

traces of another language that a speaker may bring to a new language

Question 4

what is sociolinguistics?

Answer 4

the influence of cultural identity, settings and participants on communication

Question 5

is a dialect something that someone else speaks?

Answer 5

NO, everyone speaks some dialect

Question 6

do dialects result from unsuccessful attempts to speak the correct form of a language?

Answer 6

NO, there are always normal variations between dialects

Question 7

Identify features of Southern american dialect

Answer 7

• I and E pronounced the same before a nasal (tin and ten, kin and ken)
• I and E pronounced differently before a stop (lit and let, pick and peck)

Question 8

What is Standard American English (SAE)

Answer 8

a form of English that is relatively devoid of regional characteristics

the english used by textbooks and by national broadcasters

Question 9

What is African American Vernacular English?

Answer 9

a dialect of english, spoken throughout the US thought to have originated as a pidgin of European and African languages

Question 10

Various terms for AAE

Answer 10

Black English, ebonics, black english vernacular

Question 11

5 features of AAE

Answer 11

1) Stopping
Isn’t-idint

2) Final stop deletion
bat-ba

3) /r/ deletion
more-mo

4) /l/ deletion
wolf-woof

5) Final nasal deletion
Pin- Pi

Question 12

3 morphosyntactic features of AAE

Answer 12

1) copula/auxiliary variation or omission and use of habitual “be”
2) third person singular “-s” omission
3) past tense “-ed” omission

Question 13

4 Phonological features of Spanish Influenced English

Answer 13

1) Stopping (subbing stops for fricatives)
with-wit

2) Affrication (Fricatives and glides become affricates)
ship-chip

3) Deaffrication (Affricates become fricatives)
choose-shoes

4) Devoicing of consonants
waz- was

Question 14

What is the differences between the spanish vowel triangle and the vowel quad.?

Answer 14

less vowels!!! 5 vs. 14

Question 15

purpose of the DELV

Answer 15

a tool for accessing children who speak AAE

Question 16

Non contrastive features

Answer 16

features that are shared or overlap between two dialect and constitute the majority of what designates both dialects as english

Question 17

contrastive features

Answer 17

are dialect specific, unshared, and unique to each dialect

Question 18

dialect focus should be on..

Answer 18

contrastive features

Question 19

diagnostic focus should be on…

Answer 19

non-contrastive features

Question 20

what is code switching?

Answer 20

if one is learning to be bidialectal, they may actively need to learn how to code switch between two dialects

Question 21

describe the oakland school “ebonics” controversy”

Answer 21

African-American students comprised 53% of students in the
district, were over-represented in special education classes
and under-represented in gifted and talented classes

Question 22

Misunderstanding of linguistic differences VS. linguistic disorder leads to

Answer 22

MISCLASSIFICATION of children with linguistics differences VS special education