Module 10

Question 1

What do dialects depend on?

Answer 1

Ethnicity
Speak another language
Region
Media

Question 2

What are the characteristics of African American English?

Answer 2

Metathesis: flip order of consonants
Interdental fricative substitutions(dat for that)
Liquid deletion
Monopthongization
Chain shift

Question 3

What are some characteristics of Spanish influenced english?

Answer 3

Vowel shifts
Voicing changes (negative VOT)
Stopping of V
Tapping of r
cluster changes

Question 4

What are some chracteristics of southern US english?

Answer 4

Pin-Pen merger
southern chain shift (shared with black english)
Dipthongization