LINA02H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Language Change, Isogloss, Idiolect
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Individual speaks control different varieties which they can use in different situations. The concept of a standard dialect is false. Mutual intelligibility two speakers understand one another when speaking different dialects; speaking two dialects of the same language: but . Portuguese/galician mutually intelligible (galician is closer to. Hindi/urdu when spoken, they are mutually intelligible; yet different languages because they are spoken in different countries. Mandarin/cantonese mutually unintelligible; yet in the west, we call both languages chinese : in common usage, the term language is often tied to an entity with political border. For linguists, language are not mutually intelligible and dialects are. Dialect: any variety of a language spoken by a group of people that is characterized by systematic differences from other varieties of the same language in terms of structural or lexical features (ex. Mutually intelligible forms of a language that differ in systematic ways. A language is a collection of dialects.
