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Quantification of the degree of dialect use
- Quantification of the degree of dialect use within a speaker's oral productions is referred to as “dialect density.”
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Apr 5, 2018 · Quantification of the degree of dialect use within a speaker's oral productions is referred to as “dialect density.” Oetting and McDonald (2002) identified three different methods across studies used to measure dialect density.
- Julie A. Washington, Lee Branum-Martin, Congying Sun, Ryan Lee-James
- 10.1044/2018_LSHSS-17-0063
- 2018
- 2018/04
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May 2, 2023 · This study will also examine if a participant’s dialect density is predictive of how was and were are used as a comprehension cue. There is conflicting evidence on how dialect density, a measure of dialect use in production, predicts how MAE features are used in spoken language comprehension.
Using an accelerated cohort design, univariate and bivariate growth models were employed to examine dialect density, oral language and reading, and the relationships between these variables.
- Introduction
- The Language Inventory
- Diversity of Language Populations
- Genealogical Diversity
- Structural Diversity
- Investigating Diversity For Language Evolution
- Conclusion
- Acknowledgements
Human language may be defined as a human-learnable communication system with conventionalized form-meaning pairs capable of expressing the entire communicative needs of a human society (cf. Hockett 1960for a similar view and background). With such a definition, two kinds of languages are attested as mother tongues, namely, spoken languages where fo...
There are approximately 6,500 attested spoken languages that are (or were) mutually unintelligible with each other (see Fig. 1). But let us spell out more carefully what this number actually counts. In order to be included in that count a language has to be mentioned in some publication in such a way that one can argue that it is different from, th...
Judging from the present inventory of languages, language populations ( Lewis et al. 2015 ) can consist of up to a billion speakers (English, Chinese, etc.) and go down to one speaker, if not already extinct. On all continents, the median number of speakers is below 1,000 (see Table 1 ). Most languages with a very low speaker number (less than 100)...
For centuries, linguists interested in the history of languages and their speakers have been primarily occupied with finding language families , that is, sets of languages that resemble each other so much—mainly in basic vocabulary—that one must assume they derive from a common ancestor ( Campbell and Poser 2008 ). The most well-known of all langua...
By definition, all human languages can express the same set of meanings, but they differ endlessly in their ways to do so. Looking at only a few languages one might easily get the impression that there are only a few options a grammar might have, but this view breaks down quickly when considering an increasing number of languages ( Evans and Levins...
On the classical view, language evolution happened so long ago and because of the volatility of language change and population dynamics, even if we knew everything about the present-day languages, little could be said about language evolution. But this view does not have to be definitive. In particular, in recent times, large databases have been am...
Language shows variation along a large number of dimensions that are relevant for any hypothesis on language evolution. In the present article, we surveyed the language inventory, population sizes, time depth, grammatical variation, and other relevant issues that a theory of language evolution should minimally take into account. Traditionally, lang...
This article has benefited from comments by Dan Dediu, Simon Greenhill, and Bart de Boer. The usual disclaimers apply.
- Harald Hammarström
- 2016
Mar 31, 2016 · In this article, we argue for a change in how professionals in speech-language pathology think and talk about dialect diversity in the United States and elsewhere. Our recommendation is evidence-based and reflects a change we have made to better serve children and advocate for the field of communication disorders.
- Janna B. Oetting, Kyomi D. Gregory, Andrew M. Rivière
- 2016
Mar 23, 2015 · Among the most important are (a) other phonological differences between dialects; (b) individual differences in dialect density, the extent to which an individual uses AAE features; (c) impact of vocabulary size and quality; and (d) the role of semantics in linking different pronunciations.
Aug 8, 2024 · dialect, a variety of a language that signals where a person comes from. The notion is usually interpreted geographically (regional dialect), but it also has some application in relation to a person’s social background (class dialect) or occupation (occupational dialect).
