dialects and accents Flashcards
what is a dialect?
a variety of a language associated with a geographical region or social group
what is an idiolect?
variations by individual speakers of the same dialect
what is an accent?
traces of another language that a speaker may bring to a new language
what is sociolinguistics?
the influence of cultural identity, settings and participants on communication
is a dialect something that someone else speaks?
NO, everyone speaks some dialect
do dialects result from unsuccessful attempts to speak the correct form of a language?
NO, there are always normal variations between dialects
Identify features of Southern american dialect
- 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)
What is Standard American English (SAE)
a form of English that is relatively devoid of regional characteristics
the english used by textbooks and by national broadcasters
What is African American Vernacular English?
a dialect of english, spoken throughout the US thought to have originated as a pidgin of European and African languages
Various terms for AAE
Black English, ebonics, black english vernacular
5 features of AAE
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
3 morphosyntactic features of AAE
1) copula/auxiliary variation or omission and use of habitual “be”
2) third person singular “-s” omission
3) past tense “-ed” omission
4 Phonological features of Spanish Influenced English
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
What is the differences between the spanish vowel triangle and the vowel quad.?
less vowels!!! 5 vs. 14
purpose of the DELV
a tool for accessing children who speak AAE
Non contrastive features
features that are shared or overlap between two dialect and constitute the majority of what designates both dialects as english
contrastive features
are dialect specific, unshared, and unique to each dialect
dialect focus should be on..
contrastive features
diagnostic focus should be on…
non-contrastive features
what is code switching?
if one is learning to be bidialectal, they may actively need to learn how to code switch between two dialects
describe the oakland school “ebonics” controversy”
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
Misunderstanding of linguistic differences VS. linguistic disorder leads to
MISCLASSIFICATION of children with linguistics differences VS special education
