SLHS 22700 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: African American Vernacular English, Dialect Levelling, Jargon

• School: Purdue University
• Department: Speech, Lang & Hear Science
• Course: SLHS 22700
• Professor: Ronnie Wilbur

Document Summary

How does it differ from an accent? dialect: systematic differences in the way groups speak a language, can include lexical differences accent: regional phonological or phonetic distinctions, strictly phonological. Where did american dialects come from? in the u. s. most dialectal differences are based on geographic region (also immigrants who have a foreign language background) You need to know that dialects may differ in their phonological, lexical, and syntactic features and be aware of some basic examples of each of the above differences. Who speaks it? standard american english: a dialect of english that many american nearly speak, the norm , an idealization/nobody speaks this dialect. Are there some dialects that are not rule-governed? no, all dialects have rules. African american english know its basic features. You need to know a few examples of languages that serve as lingua franca. lingua franca: where groups desire social or commercial communication, one language is often used by common agreement, trade language.