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Ling 115Varieties - correct answer ✔✔Ways that people speak; neutral term
Slang - correct answer ✔✔Agreement about the rules.
Can be improper slang/there is a wrong way to use slang
-know rules that haven't been taught
Advantage of Mutual Intelligibility - correct answer ✔✔Don't need exact same grammar, pronunciation,
vocabulary
i.e. British and American English
Mutual intelligibility problems - correct answer ✔✔1. Same language, not mutually intelligible
i.e. Chinese= Cantonese, mandarin, Taiwanese or Geordie from New Castle
2. Different languages, mutually intelligible
ie languages spoken at the border are understood
3. Dialect Continuums
-where do you draw the lines between languages?
What is a language? - correct answer ✔✔Socio-political
-what people actually use
Examples of slang rules - correct answer ✔✔-like insertion
-expletive insertion
Dialect Continuums - correct answer ✔✔Languages don't change at the border they change little by little
- similar to the color spectrum, cannot define where one thing ends and another beings
ie Western Romance Dialect Continuum, Turkic Dialect Continuum
, Language - correct answer ✔✔Powerful variety; socio-political
Lexico-statistics - correct answer ✔✔100-200 words: cognates?
- 80-100% = same language
- 21-81% = same family, different languages
- <28% = different families, different languages
Lexico-statistics definition - correct answer ✔✔formal linguists use it to determine whether a variety is a
language
-in this method, linguists compare vocabulary, grammar, and pronunciation of the varieties to estimate
the percentage of similarities among them
-factors that influence speakers to identify themselves as speakers of a certain language are: socio-
economic class, ethnicity, and religion
-Would NOT work to define varieties geographically
Lingua Franca - correct answer ✔✔What speakers use to communicate with one another
-the common language spoken between two speakers of different languages
Social Dialect Continuum - correct answer ✔✔Jamaican Creole Dialect Continuum = social class
continuum
Register - correct answer ✔✔Ways of speaking depending on formality
-more specific to the situation~the use of certain terms
ie sports
(overlap with style)
Language - correct answer ✔✔A standard variety used by the people in a country
Slang - correct answer ✔✔Informal variety, often not found in dictionaries, but used in daily life
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