Language Diversity) intro

Question 1

What influences way we speak. 3

Answer 1

Regional dialects/accents
National varieties
Personal and social varieties like age, gender, occupation, and sexuality

Question 2

Explain Labov’s study

Answer 2

Martha’s Vineyard study
Interested in diphthongs /au/ and /ai/
Interviewed 69 ppl from different social groups, ages, ethnicity and occupation
Labov asked questions that involved pronouncing these vowels
Found fisherman aged pronounced more like /eu/ and /ei/ in order to establish identity themselves as vineyarder

Question 3

Who thought up Martha’s Vineyard study

Answer 3

Labov (1963)

Question 4

What’s an accent

Answer 4

How you sound depending on where you’re from

Question 5

What’s a sociolect

Eg

Answer 5

Way you speak depending on your social group

Eg wile means very in Northern Ireland

Question 6

What’s an idiolect

Answer 6

Someone’s unique use of language depdning on friends, family, hobbies, occupation etc

Question 7

What’s a dialect

Eg

Answer 7

A way of speaking that’s influenced by geography

Eg dialect in Liverpool is scouse