LIGN 175- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 27 pages long!)
12 Oct 2017
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Korean american often appear old-fashioned to younger generations of koreans because they learn korean from their parents. Cot sounds like caught only in certain dialects. Word order morphology and whether it is acceptable to a speaker. Chinese speakers struggle with gendered pronouns because it is not specified in mandarin. The current generation has a tendecy to truncate. Do you want to come with (me) Some differences are hard to explain in terms of of big groups like ethnicity and socioeconomics. How sociolinguistics study language - subject and methodology. Step 1: minimal pairs and/or word list. Make them forget they"re being interviewed to make it less formal. We want as natural speech as possible. But observation causes speakers to talk differently. May refer to a nonstandard variety of speech. An abstract representation that exists in language. Form of language that is standardized and promoted by institutions and those with prestige/authority. An official language may not have a standard form.
