language/dialect expectations‚ first impressions/stereotyping‚ and religious pressures. If someone lives in a country that predominantly speaks a certain way‚ that person is considered “weird” if their vernacular is different from the culture’s. In “The Perfect Voice‚” Carl Elliott explains that a person that speaks a certain language or with a certain dialect is automatically stereotyped in certain regions of the world. For example‚ to many Northerners‚ anyone that speaks with a Southern accent is
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Tongues is a 1988 documentary made to illustrate some of the dialects of American English. It features commentaries from several groups of professionals‚ such as sociolinguists Roger Shuy and Walt Wolfram‚ columnists Mike Harden and Molly Ivins‚ therapist Dennis Becker and historian A.C. Greene. The most prominent commentators are Walt Wolfram and Molly Ivins‚ who addressed sociolinguistic attitudes and stereotypes about American dialects. Below are the biographical notes of some of the commentators:
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English is spoken as a first language. This reading provided an overview of the many identifiable variations in pronunciation‚ deriving from the phoneme inventory of the local dialect‚ of the local variety of Standard English between various populations of native English speakers. Local accents are part of local dialects. Dialects of English have unique features in pronunciation‚ vocabulary‚ and grammar. I have learned that the term "accent" describes pronunciation. It is interesting to listen to non-native
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deep stereotypes as characters allows for their actions to be predictable. However when one reads through the play‚ one cannot help but recognize and appreciate the true fourth character‚ which is the language. The choice of having three English-dialects helps to create at atmosphere that is both familiar for the audience and comical from the start. Through the use of dark humor McGuinness is able take a dire situation and bring light to it. The men themselves use language as a means to bring light
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Pama-Nyungan family on the basis of it being a suffixing language‚ which lack grammatical gender. Another difference between Wangkajunga and the languages of southern Western Desert is that it does not have a different case marking for proper nouns and independent pronouns and marks both with an Ergative case suffix –lu‚ unlike its southern neighbors. When working on her Grammar of Wangkajunga Jones (2011) found out that speakers of Wangkajunga‚ Yulparija‚ Manyjilyjarra‚ and Kukatja refer to themselves
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The northern and southern colonies were different from each other. Different reasons brought people here. the colonies survived in different ways judging by their resources. The north didn’t develop slavery but the south did. People came to America for different reasons. For example people who came to the south came for gold plant tobacco and rice. People from the north wanted free religion. According to the site New England colony‚ "The religion practised in New England was strictly Puritan
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Individual dialects cover all across the world there differences can be heard from one country to next or even at some points throughout the same city. A dialect is the way in which a person speaks. Any language heard today can be traced back to the previous settlers of that surrounding area and often times over the decades have merged with other dialects forming different speech patterns. A person’s dialect forms around those he is surrounded by‚ and may change through the course of their life
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Black Vernacular English from Virginia Black Vernacular English‚ a dialect at times used by as many as 80 to 90 percent of African Americans and long identified by whites as substandard English‚ is in fact a different and unique form of American English. Black Vernacular English (BVE)‚ or Black English‚ is fundamentally a spoken language derived from the slaves and still remarkably consistent throughout African American culture. Because of the roots and many unique aspects of Black Vernacular
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the speech of individuals and groups. Linguistics 201‚ May 28‚ 2001 Kordula De Kuthy 1 Dialect 2 Accent Any variety of a language characterized by systematic differences in pronunciation‚ grammar‚ and vocabulary from other varieties of the same language is called a dialect. Everyone speaks a dialect – in fact‚ many dialects at different levels. The people who speak a certain dialect are called a speech community. Some of the larger dialectal divisions in the English speaking
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research on language variations‚ sensitivity‚ and acquisition among social groups of all types based on social status‚ age‚ race‚ sex‚ family‚ friendship units and all kinds of relationships. Sociolinguistics is also concerned with topics such as dialect geography‚ bilingualism‚ linguistic interference‚ social dialectology "including studies of social stratification and minority group speech)‚ language situations "language rivalries‚ standardization‚ language as a means for group identification and
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