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Social and Regional Dialects

1). What’s are dialects?

R/: The dialects of a language are the mutually intelligible forms that differ in systematic ways from each other. Dialects develop because languages change, and the changes that occur in one group or area may differ from those that occur in another.

2). What’s regional dialects?

R/: Each version of the language based on geographic region.

3). Wich are the regional dialects differences?

R/: Dialect differences include phonological or pronunciation differences (often called accents, vocabulary distinctions, and syntactic rule differences.

 Phonological Differences: When we talk about phonology, we talk of the differences like when a letter drop or some variations.

Lexical Differences: When we talk about of lexical differences we want to say that a words people use for the same object differ for other people, in other word, an object has a name, maybe in other part of the country the same object receive other name.

Syntactic Differences: When we talk about syntactic, we refer in the structure of the sentences of the paragraph, in this context people use a structure maybe in other part of the country use other way for say the same thing.

For example:

John will eat and Mary will eat = John and Mary will eat

John will eat and Mary will eat = John will eat and Mary

All those things are responsible for regional dialects in a language.

4). What’s are social dialects?

R/: A social dialect is really called a "social REGISTER" of a specific language. It refers to the type of speech, pronunciation, and vocabulary used to communicate in the language with a specific social class or group within the greater society. Social dialects arise when groups are isolated socially.

5). What’s the ‘’Standard’’ English?

R/:  Standar American English (SAE) is a dialect of English that many Americans nearly speak; divergences from this ''norm'' are labeled ''Philadelphia dialect,'' ''Chicago dialect,'' ''African American English, and so on.

6). What’s Chicano English?

R/: Is a dialect of American English spoken primarily by Mexican American, is acquired as a first language by many children, making it the native language of hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of Americans. 

7). Wich are the differences to Chicano English?

R/: Linguistics differences of this sort that vary whit the social situation of the speaker are termed sociolinguistic variables 

For example, the uses of nonstandard forms like double negation is often associated with pride of ethnicity, which is part of social context. 

Many Chicano speakers are bidialectal they can use CHE or AAE or SAE depending on the social situation.

AAE: AFRICAN AMERICAN ENGLISH.

SAE: STANDARD AMERICAN ENGLSIH.

8). What factors influence people to speak dialects?

R/: There are many things that influence in the way of the people speak different those thing are: age, sex, social situation and when the language was learned.

9). Why language is unique?

R/: All this things we can see the difference in the grammatical rules, pronunciation, that happen because the language is unique for each person who speak, obviously for each language there is a social conventions for how we have to speak a language, but the language is not static, the language change through time, for this reason the language for part of the people from a specific area.    

10). What is the difference between a dialect and an accent?

R/: Dialect 

A dialect  is a variety of language differing in vocabulary and grammar as well as pronunciation. Dialects are usually spoken by a group united by geography or class.

Accent

When a standard language and pronunciation are defined by a group, an accent may be any pronunciation that deviates from that standard.