Language and Dialect

Question 1

What is dialect?

Answer 1

Grammar and words

Question 2

What is a regional dialect?

Answer 2

Manchester Dialect.
Example;
- CHUDDY means CHEWING GUM
- PANTS means TROUSERS
- SOZ means SORRY
- SCRAN means EAT
- DO ONE means GO AWAY

Question 3

What is Dialect levelling?

Answer 3

‘language’ becoming less varied. Different English’s dying out.

Question 4

What is Prescriptivist and Descriptivist?

Answer 4

Prescriptivist - Should be
Descriptivist - Actually is

Question 5

What did Kerswill’s Dialect levelling say?

Answer 5

Regional varieties are dying out.

Question 6

What is the Surrey Dialcet?

Answer 6

Lexical - ‘TIMMERSOME’ means TIMID
BANNICK means BEAT

Grammar - COPULAR BE OF HOW BE YOU?

Question 7

What is an opened network?

Answer 7

The people you know all don’t know each other.

Question 8

What is a closed network?

Answer 8

The people you know all know each other.

Question 9

What is a uniplex relationship?

Answer 9

Or Or Or

Question 10

What is a multiplex relationship?

Answer 10

AND AND AND

Question 11

What did Milroy and Milton’s study say?

Answer 11

Britain is becoming increasing more socially mobile.

Question 12

What is Cheshires Reading study?

Answer 12

Studied teenagers on a playground. Non-standard 11 features such as non-standard inflection ‘s’
Boys used 10 of the 11 features than girls