LIN101H5 Lecture 10: Sociolinguistics
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Genie: no two people speak in the exact same way. 1: the standard, speech communities that have a number of dialects but favour one over the others, standard or prestige dialect, how is a standard defined, people converge on their opinions of what they perceive as the standard. Newscaster" speech is considered to be fairly standard: they have specific ways to say things (speaking rules, non-standard dialects, considered less educated and correct, example: a colonizer (england) trying to impose british. Imposing languages doesn"t historically work well: from a linguistic perspective - no dialect is more or less correct than another, rhotic vs. nonrhotic ([r] sounds, most north american dialects are rhotic. In england, the dialects are nonrhotic: not just dropping the [r] - the vowel becomes a diphthong, the prestige with this dialects is different in. / / raising to / : canadian vowel shift (right now)
