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ALR176 Intro to language 1
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Undergraduate 1
04/14/2012

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dialect
Definition
Mutually intelligible varieties of a dialect that differ systematically from each other. sound words - predictable variants of a language - grammar differs dependent on region, social, and prestige = bundles of isogloss- communicative isolation over time
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idiolect
Definition
personal - reflect individuals grammar personal way they speak
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regional dialect
Definition
dialect from a specific geographic location -
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Social
Definition
dialect spoken in a particular SES, race, place of origin, gender
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accents
Definition
sound only - phonetics - pronunciation of a specific region worsh/wash
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dialect maps/atlases
Definition
map showing specific dialects for an area - pop/soda - atlases a book of these maps
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Isogloss
Definition
geographic boundary that separates dialect differences pop/soda
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SAE - Standard American English
Definition
Proper English
1. idealization
2. none actually speaks it
3. not precisely defined
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Lingua frances
Definition
language common to speakers of diverse languages used to communicate - pilots/English is international language - Trade
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Euphemism
Definition
word or phrase that replaces a taboo - means the same - powder room / toilet
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Slang
Definition
words used in casual speech - social groups - age groups - populations
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Jargon (argot)
Definition
word particular to members of groups -
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Style
Definition
situation based - formal/casual speech
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Register
Definition
Tone used for situation based language
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Marked / unmarked
Definition
gradable pair of antonyms high/low Low is marked/High is unmarked How high is the mountain? Not how low is the mountain? Low is used lest often. Princess is marked/ Prince unmarked feminine/masculine
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Language & Gender (genderlects)
Definition
distinctive aspects of female or male speech manly courage / feminine wiles
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William Labov's study
Definition
studied three stores at three SES levels NYC r dropping socially stratified (layered) - lower SES dropped the r more often
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African American English
Definition
•r-deletion everywhere except before a vowel poor/poe
•l-deletion help/hep
•consonant cluster passed/pass asked/axe
•Neutralization pin/pen
•Loss of interdental fricatives ruth/rof
•deletion of "Be" "Is" "Are" "Am"
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Chicano English
Definition
ed es dropped affricate and fricative interchanged shook/check borrow me a pencil" double negative ship/sheep rid/read
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Brother-in-law
Definition
Used in the presence of a persons in laws - social taboos -society and cultural driven
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Regular sound correspondences
Definition
The occurrence of different sounds in the same position u u u u o u between newer and older forms of same language.
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Sound Shift
Definition
historical phonological shift - Grimm's law
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Genetically related languages
Definition
single mother two or more languages developed from a common language - Italian and Spanish / Latin Ancestor proto language
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Proto-Indo-European (PIE)
Definition
descriptive name given to the ancestor language of modern language families - Germanic, Slavic, Romance
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Synchronic
Definition
one point in time
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Diachronic
Definition
through time
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Great Vowel Shift
Definition
vowel shift that took place in history seven vowel changes
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cognats
Definition
words that developed from the same ancestral root English man/German mann
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Neogrammarians
Definition
19th century linguistics that believed their is one sound shift rule for everything
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Matathesis
Definition
reorders sounds ask /aks
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palatalization
Definition
a sound, usually a consonant, comes to be produced with the tongue in a position in the mouth near the palate. ka cha ta moves forward on palate.
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comparative method
Definition
compares two languages at same point in time.
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Grimm's Law
Definition
phonological change in sound system of early ancestor of Germanic language formation.
*p>f *b>p *bh>b
*t>0 *d>t *dh>d
*k>h *g>k *gh>g
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Regular sound correspondences
Definition
The occurrence of different sounds in the same position u u u u o u between newer and older forms of same language.
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Morphological Change
Definition
loss of case endings es,s,us,um,e, genitive case retains
nomanative = subject
accusative = direct object
genitive = possessive
dative = direct object
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Syntactic change
Definition
change in word order
exception - a-
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Semantic change
Definition
broadening - meaning becomes broader Narrowing - meaning becomes more specific
Meaning shift - a word changes meaning elevation
degradation -
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Lexical
Definition
reduce words(acronyms) - borrowed words - loaned words similar to other languages
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Taboo
Definition
inappropriate for polite society - f**k
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Why language changes
Definition
1. Children learn from listening to adult’s - imperfect pronunciation
2. Less effort theory - ease of articulation one sound influences another
3. Analog - generalization of rules
4. Prestige -
5. Borrowing from French and Scandinavian
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PIE Proto-Indo- Europeian
Definition
Germanic - English, German, Dutch, Frisian, Afrikaans, Yiddish, Danish, Iclandic, Norwegian, Swedish
Italic -Romance - Catalan, French, Italian, Portuguese, Provencal, Romanian, Spanish
Celtic- Breton, Irish, Scots Galic, Welsh
Indo-Iranian - Sandskirt - Indi, Urdu, Bengali
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Comparative method of reconstruction
Definition
deducing of forms in an ancestral language of genetivcally related languages. The sound change is regular and systematic (not significant)
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Sr. William Jones
Definition
studies dead languages like Ancient Greek,Latin, and Sandskrit. Similarity between LT, GK, and SK. Common source with Germanic and Celtic had same origin.
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History of language
Definition
private letters - puns and rhymes - transcribing ancient languages by using artifacts and historical information to go backwards
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Pidgin
Definition
Simpler, native to noone, from european languages, people develope form to communicate, superstrate from most dominate groups, substrate from least dominate groups,Phonology - simplified phonemic inventory, Morphology - few or no affixes,very little irregularity,one 3rd person pronoun,reduplication. Syntax - basic word order SVO. Semantics - very small lexicons, words extended beyound meaning of borrower.
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Creole
Definition
second generation pidgin
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