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1. Dialects, Standards, and Vernaculars. Most of us have had the experience of sitting in a public place and eavesdropping on conversations taking place around the United States. We pretend to be preoccupied, but we can’t seem to help listening.
Jan 17, 2024 · The United States may lack an official language, but a road trip across the country reveals dozens of different accents and dialects of English that serve as living links to Americans’ ancestors....
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Among the important changes are the following: (1) changing patterns of immigration and language contact; (2) shifting patterns of population movement; (3) changing cultural centers; and (4) increasing interregional accessibility. During the twentieth century, immigrants continued to pour into America.
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Language - Migration, Dialects, Variation: The fundamental cause of linguistic change and hence of linguistic diversification is the minute deviations occurring in the transmission of language from one generation to another.
Mar 17, 2009 · A first question to tackle is the one raised in Section 1, namely, whether dialect transplantation really leads to linguistic conservatism (at least in its initial stages) or whether it does not have the opposite effect, that is, it speeds up the rate of language change.
People who speak stigmatized dialects have the resources to shift even more, turning up or down the use of dialect features (words, pronunciations, and grammatical structures), or even switching varieties entirely, if they have had enough access to the “standard” to become bi-dialectal.
Dec 4, 2017 · The melding of sociolinguistics and dialectology to create the hybrid field of sociodialectology, simultaneously examining social and regional variation as interrelated phenomena, produced an effort to create a nationwide map of American English, beginning in the 1990s.
