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social dialect ✔✔ANSWER✔✔dialect differences that seem to come
about because of social factors
dominant or prestige dialect ✔✔ANSWER✔✔standard dialect
Standard American English (SAE) ✔✔ANSWER✔✔a variety of American
English that is widely shared by middle class, urban, educated speakers
and most closely resembles the written form of language taught in
schools
lingua franca ✔✔ANSWER✔✔A language mutually understood and
commonly used in trade by people who have different native languages
Pidgin ✔✔ANSWER✔✔A form of speech that adopts a simplified
grammar and limited vocabulary of a lingua franca, used for
communications among speakers of two different languages.
Creole ✔✔ANSWER✔✔further development of a pidgin leads to this
,code-switching ✔✔ANSWER✔✔a speech style unique to bilinguals, in
which speakers switch languages between or within sentences
synthetic approach ✔✔ANSWER✔✔stresses the teaching of
grammatical, lexical, phonological, and functional units of the language
step by step (bottom up method)
analytic approach ✔✔ANSWER✔✔A method of teaching reading in
which students study sounds within the context of whole words. For
instance, the letter /s/ is taught as the letter heard a the beginning of
"sun." (top down method)
whole-word ✔✔ANSWER✔✔teaches children to recognize vocab of
some fifty to one hundred words by rote learning, often by seeing the
words used repeatedly in a story
phonics ✔✔ANSWER✔✔emphasizes the correspondence between
letters and the sounds associated with them
whole-language ✔✔ANSWER✔✔phonics should not be taught directly.
Rather, the child is supposed to make connections between sounds and
letters herself based on exposure to text
situational dialects ✔✔ANSWER✔✔styles or registers; depends on if
you are with friends vs at work meeting. children vs parents
,slang ✔✔ANSWER✔✔a type of language that consists of words and
phrases that are regarded as very informal, are more common in speech
than writing, and are typically restricted to a particular context or group
of people.
jargon or argot ✔✔ANSWER✔✔occupational/professional slang terms
Euphesim ✔✔ANSWER✔✔the substitution of an agreeable or
inoffensive expression for one that may offend or suggest something
unpleasant
sexism in language ✔✔ANSWER✔✔Language that excludes either men
or women when discussing a topic that is applicable to both sexes.
historical linguistics ✔✔ANSWER✔✔the study of how languages change
over time
comparative linguistics ✔✔ANSWER✔✔the study of similarities and
differences between languages, in particular the comparison of related
languages with a view to reconstructing forms in their lost parent
languages.
regular sound correspondence ✔✔ANSWER✔✔regular phonological
dialect differences within a language
, sound shift ✔✔ANSWER✔✔slight change in a word across languages
within a subfamily or through a language family from the present
backward toward its origin
Great Vowel Shift ✔✔ANSWER✔✔a change in the pronunciation of
English language that took place between 1400 and 1600
eponyms ✔✔ANSWER✔✔any word that is derived from a person's
name
clipping ✔✔ANSWER✔✔A new word created by shortening an existing
one, e.g. phone.
Acronyms ✔✔ANSWER✔✔abbreviations that stand in for common
phrases
alphabetic abbreviations ✔✔ANSWER✔✔A word composed of the
initials of several words and pronounced letter-by-letter: e.g., MRI from
magnetic resonance imaging
loan words ✔✔ANSWER✔✔Words borrowed from another language
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