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Language

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System of communication through speech

A collection of sounds they a group of people understand to have the same meaning

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English is important in

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Essential for career advancement and economic success

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Literary tradition

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System of written communication

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Official language

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Language used by government in laws, reports, public objects

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Language is like luggage

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People carry it with them and they add words to it when they get to different places

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Two languages speak the same language because

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Migration from one location to another

If they have few connections, eventually they will be classified as different languages

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English is the first language of

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First language of 328 mil people

Fluently by .5-1 billion people

Official language I 57 countries
1/3 of the world live in an English speaking country even though they don’t know how to speak it

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Contemporary distribution of English

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British Colonies spoke English

1 west England to US
2 England defeated French in USA
3 Britain took control of Ireland, South Asia, Southern Africa
4 US diffused English to the phill opines and other places and Spain

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English fromEngland

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Migration from English

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English in England

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Tribes of Celts speaking Celtic invaded.
The tribes from mainland England invaded and pushed them into northern western Britain

Cornwall highlands it Scotland’s and wales

German invasion
Norman invasion
Vikings from norways

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German invasion

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Angles Jutes Saxons

All Germanic tribes

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Jutes from

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North Denmark

The southeast
Kentish brought

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Angles from

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Southern demark

The north

Northumbrian

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Saxons from

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Northwestern Germany

South and west

West Saxon

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Anglo Saxons

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English who trace their heritage back to England after the 2 larger tribes

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England name comes from

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Angle’s land

It used to be spelled engles
And the language was called englisc

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Norman invasion

What language

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English was conquered by Normans in 1066

The leaders spoke French bu rest of the commoners spoke English

England lost control over Normandy in1204 and starts a long conflict with France so fewer people in England wants to speak French

Simple words like horse come from Germanic roots and fancy words like feminine come from French imvaders

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Dialect

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Regional variation of a
A language

Distinctive vocabulary, spelling, pronunciations
Speaker of one dialect should be able to understand another

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Dialects reflect on environment

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They reflect distinctive features of the environment in which groups live.

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Isogloss

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A word usage boundary

Every word that is not used nationally has some goegraphic extent in the country and has boundaries,

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How determine isogloss

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Natives of rural area are shown pictures to identify and sentences to complete with a word

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How dialects develop

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Speakers of a language migrate to other locations

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Standard language

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Dialect that is well established and widely recognized as the most acceptable for government, business, education, and mass communication.

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Standard language form of British speech

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BRP

British Received Pronunciation

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Dialect vs. accent

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Dialect of the region
Sound of the region
That region has a dialect

Accent of an individual
Individual sound
He has an accent

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Southern UK pronunciation

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Grass, path… Ah sound

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Northerners midlands pronunciation

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Butter, Sunday

Oo sound

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American English originates from

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Colonists from England

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Why English American sound different to England English

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Isolation

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What is different between US. And England English?

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Vocabulary

Spelling

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Vocabulary differences in US and England

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They encountered many different objects and experiences

Moose, raccoon, chipmunk, large forests and mountains,

Indians: squash, canoe, moccasin
New inventions: elevator/lift, flashlight/torch

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Spelling differences in US and England

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Strong national feelings in US

Noah Webster was determined to develop anew dialect in the US: colour/ color honour/ honor

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Noah Webster

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First aMerican dictionary

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Major differences in US dialects why

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Different dialects of the original settlers

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Original settlements of colonization

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New England
Southeastern
Middle Atlantic

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New England American settlement

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Almost all settlers were from England

Mostly puritans
Only a few came from north of England

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Puritans of America settlement

How many and where from

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2/3 of New England colonies

From east anglia In southeastern England

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South eastern settlers in USA

How many?

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About half of the settlers came from southeast England

Resents a diversity of social class backgrounds: deported prisoners, indentured servants, political and religious refugees

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Middle Atlantic USA settlers
Settlers of
What ethnicity
Diversity

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Middle Atlantic immigrants were more diverse

Pennsylvania settlers = Quakers from north England
Scots and Irish went to Pennsylvania and New Jersey and Delaware

Middle Atlantic colonies attracted German Dutch and Swedish immigrants.

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Middle Atlantic colonies attracted

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German Dutch Swedish

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Scots and Irish went to

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Pennsylvania, New Jersey Delaware

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Pennsylvania settlers ethnicity

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Quakers

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Isoglosses in the USA

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two separate the northern, midlands an southern dialect regions

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Language differences more. Rural or urban

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Rural since they are more isolated

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Language family

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Collection of languages that have a common ancestral language that existed long before recorded history

Human AP-language/ popular culture 45 Hug (4 decks)

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