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ACCENTS AND DIALECT - Coggle Diagram
ACCENTS AND DIALECT
Dialect-levelling= when dialects lose their distinctness and become more similar over time so regional features are lost.
Convergence= a individual changing their style of language to become more similar to the other participant’s language (e.g. changing accent)
Divergence= an individual changing how they speak to become more different from the other participant/s.
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Dialect= a distinct form of a language that varies in some syntactic, lexical or semantic ways.
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Code-switching - A01:
changing from one distinct dialect to another depending on who the other participants are and the context of the exchange. (FYI, also applies to bilingual speakers.)
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LABOV
Social Stratification in New York City, 1966
‘The Department Store Study’
Labov recorded speakers from the lower East side and analysed 5 phonological variables. i.e the use of ‘r’ in card and door. Or ‘fourth floor’. - /r/ = alveolar approximant
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This confirmed that linguistic variation was not random and unstructured but rather the orderly diversity of language. People’s pronunciations had patterns and reason