Speech From Concrete to Abstract Idiolect Dialect Language

Speech: From Concrete to Abstract Idiolect Dialect Language Fromkin, Victoria, Robert Rodman & Nina Hyams. 2011. An Introduction to Language, 9 th edition. Wadsworth, Cengage Learning, pp. 430 -431.

Dialects “Dialects are mutually intelligible forms of a language that differ in systematic ways. ” Fromkin, Victoria, Robert Rodman & Nina Hyams. 2003. An Introduction to Language, 7 th ed. Boston, MA: Wadsworth, p. 445.

Dialects vs. Languages “When dialects become mutually unintelligible—when the speakers of one dialect group can no longer understand the speakers of another dialect group— these dialects become different languages. ” Fromkin, Victoria, Robert Rodman & Nina Hyams. 2011. An Introduction to Language, 9 th edition. Wadsworth, Cengage Learning, p. 431.

Why do dialects differ? ISOLATION Barriers Distance TIME (physical) (social)

Dialect Continuum or Chain A B

Dialect Differences Phonological Lexical (vocabulary) Syntactic Fromkin, Victoria, Robert Rodman & Nina Hyams. 2011. An Introduction to Language, 9 th edition. Wadsworth, Cengage Learning, pp. 432 -438.

Isoglosses for words for some kind of cheese See your textbook, p. 437 (9 th edition); p. 415 (8 th edition) Fromkin, Victoria, Robert Rodman & Nina Hyams. 2011. An Introduction to Language, 9 th edition. Wadsworth, Cengage Learning, p. 437.

Conjoined First Person Singular Pronoun Dialect 1 between you and I Won’t he let you and I swim? Dialect 2 between you and me Won’t he let you and me swim? *Won’t he let I swim? Fromkin, Victoria, Robert Rodman & Nina Hyams. 2011. An Introduction to Language, 9 th edition. Wadsworth, Cengage Learning, p. 438.