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1. www.academia.edu › 6695352(PDF) Sociolinguistics: Language and Dialect - Academia.edu

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   A B C • Varieties that have traditionally been described as separate languages based on historical, political or ethnic criteria may be mutually intelligible. An example is Norwegian, Danish and Swedish in northern Europe. • Most people would say that English is a language, but dialects of English may be mutually unintelligible.

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2. assets.cambridge.org › 97805218 › 84976The Morphology of English Dialects

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   Drawing on data col-lected from the Freiburg English Dialect Corpus (FRED), this innovative and engaging study comes directly from the forefront of this fi eld, and will be of great interest to students and researchers of English language and linguistics, morphology and syntax. LIESELOTTE ANDERWALD is Professor of English Linguistics at the ...

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   What is a dialect of a single language?

   • Or put another way, speech varieties that are different languages according to the linguistic criterion of mutual intelligibility may be considered dialects of a single language according to historical, social, and political criteria. Examples of this situation are Arabic and Chinese.

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   Is there a criterion for distinguishing a language from a dialect?

   • Since there is no universally accepted criterion for distinguishing a language from a dialect, the examples provided in the rest of this chapter are from language varieties that are traditionally referred to as dialects as well as closely related varieties that are mostly referred to as languages. (Gooskens in Boberg et al. 2018: 208)

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   Are all English dialects mutually intelligible?

   • So far I've only been able to learn is that English is highly intelligible among its different dialects, but no actual statement that all dialect are mutually intelligible. Try watching The Wire. Or anything with Brad Pitt in it. Men and women? Parents and children?

   Are there any mutually unintelligible English dialects?

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   Could English break up into unintelligible languages?

   • In recent years there have been suggestions that English could break up into mutually unintelligible languages, much as Latin once did. Could such a break-up occur, or are we in need of a new appreciation of the nature of World English?

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4. www.researchgate.net › publication › 344463560(PDF) What is dialect and why study it? - ResearchGate

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   Jul 1, 2011 · differentiated via grammar, lexis, and in terms of speech - phonology. The OED defines dialect as. ‘Manner of speaking, language, speech; esp. a manner of speech peculiar to, or characteristic ...

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5. www.cambridge.org › the-english-languagesThe English languages? - Cambridge University Press & Assessment

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   In January 1985, in the first issue of ET, Alan Maley called English 'the most chameleon of languages'. In pointing to this versatility, however, he felt the need to consider one possible future for this chameleon, that 'English as an international language . . . will succumb to the same fate as Latin'. About the same time that Maley made this ...

6. dept.english.wisc.edu › rfyoung › 336Dialects - University of Wisconsin–Madison

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   What is a dialect? 1. A regional variety of language: a. regional variety of a language, with differences in vocabulary, grammar, and pronunciation. 2. A language spoken by class or. profession: a form of a language spoken by members of a particular social class or profession. • What dialect of English do you speak?

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   Since there is no universally accepted criterion for distinguishing a language from a dialect, the examples provided in the rest of this chapter are from language varieties that are traditionally referred to as dialects as well as closely related varieties that are mostly referred to as languages.

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   Sep 29, 2014 · Are there any mutually unintelligible English dialects? So far I've only been able to learn is that English is highly intelligible among its different dialects, but no actual statement that all dialect are mutually intelligible.