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Reading for this week:
Contemporary Linguistics, p. 485 – 518 (Ch. 15)
Things to know:
- Dialect vs. Accent
- Isoglosses and their use to determine Regional Variation
- The different types of Regionlal Variation (in Lexical Items, Phonology, Morphology, And Syntax)
- The different dialect boundaries of the U.S. (Figure 15.7)
- The types of factors that can influence language use:
- Social Network
- Age
- Gender
- Ethnicity
- The different types of Contact Languages (Pidgin vs. Creole vs. Borrowing)
Tutorials:
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