Based on social class and situation. Other things are gender and age
Ethnic dialects
Meaning of the word dialect
Meaning sociolinguistics
North-east: r-lessness after vowels
Park the car in the Harvard yard -> Pahk the cah in the havahd yahd.
Three sorts of variation:
- Social factors
- Position of the /r/ in a word
- Speech situation (formal/informal)
South: southern drawl. Raising of /e/ to /I/. /ai/ becomes nasalized and lengthened. Before
an /N/ the /Z/ becomes /d/.
Vocabulary: loanwords for foods
Anymore means nowadays or these days
Ethnic dialects
Meaning of the word dialect
Meaning sociolinguistics
North-east: r-lessness after vowels
Park the car in the Harvard yard -> Pahk the cah in the havahd yahd.
Three sorts of variation:
- Social factors
- Position of the /r/ in a word
- Speech situation (formal/informal)
South: southern drawl. Raising of /e/ to /I/. /ai/ becomes nasalized and lengthened. Before
an /N/ the /Z/ becomes /d/.
Vocabulary: loanwords for foods
Anymore means nowadays or these days
