LING 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Second-Language Acquisition, Vowel, Dialect Levelling

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Linguistics
• Course: LING 100
• Professor: Clifford Burgess

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Look up google ngram for online assignment #3. Review online quizzes and iclicker quizzes iclicker quizzes will probably be on midterm so study these. Note the distinction between markers and indicators: markers: thi(cid:374)gs i(cid:374) o(cid:374)e"s la(cid:374)guage usage that are salie(cid:374)t, the(cid:455) are o(cid:271)(cid:448)ious, e. g. Indicators: less obvious; can be extracted by careful analysis of linguistic data: e. g. vowel height. Dialects are mutually intelligible: differences in our english are dialectal. So called standard varieties of a la(cid:374)guage are ofte(cid:374) (cid:862)sta(cid:374)dard(cid:863) (cid:271)(cid:455) (cid:448)irtue of some prescriptivism value being attached to them. The ter(cid:373) (cid:862)slang(cid:863) refers o(cid:374)l(cid:455) to (cid:449)ords, (cid:374)ot to diale(cid:272)ts (cid:374)or a ter(cid:373) (cid:374)ot used i(cid:374) (cid:455)our te(cid:454)t. Idiolects: your own brand of speech; the way you speak: you speak a certain dialect, but you do it in your own way. Other types of speech include jargon and argot. E(cid:448)er(cid:455)o(cid:374)e has a(cid:374) a(cid:272)(cid:272)e(cid:374)t, e(cid:448)e(cid:374) if it does(cid:374)"t sou(cid:374)d like it. Can come from variety of sources: geography, ethnicity, class.