Dialect
What is dialect?
What is variants of a standard language along ethic or regional lines?
What country's government has policies to protect their language?
What is France?
What is language?
What is, a set of sounds an symbols that is used for communication?
What is an isogloss?
What is, a geographic boundary within which a particular linguistic feature occurs?
What is assimilation?
What is, when a minority group loses distinct cultural traits, such as dress, food, or speech, and adopts the customs of the dominant culture. Can happen voluntarily or by force?
What can factors can define peoples dialect?
What is differences in Vocabulary, syntax, pronunciation, cadence, and pace of speech.
What was the Académie Française created for?
What is, to protect and standardize the French language?
Language helps cement ________ ________, how we make sense of ourselves
What is, cultural identity?
a. pronunciations, vocabularies, use of colloquial phrases, and syntax
b. difficult languages, maps, areas, cultural landscapes, and diffusion
c. people, religions, women, and children
d. none of the above
What is, a; pronunciations, vocabularies, use of colloquial phrases, and syntax
What is reassimilation?
What is a second assimilation over an assimilated region
What is mutual intelligibility?
What is when two people can understand each other when speaking
What was banned in 1975 in order to protect the use of French?
What is, the use of foreign words in advertisements, television, and radio broadcasts, as well as official documents. The only exception was if there was no French equivalent.
Language not only creates a shared identity; it can also _
a. help people learn
b. reveal much about the way people and cultures view reality
c. increase possibilism
d. eat potatoes
what is, b; reveal much about the way people and cultures view reality?
Can a linguistic feature occur beyond the isogloss?
What is, yes?
What are the steps for the typical assimilation plan?
What is coming to an area and repainting the culture?
In America, what is an example of different dialects? (accents)
What word did the French government create to replace the word of #hashtag?
What is, #motdièse?
What makes a language a standard language?
What is, a language that is published, widely distributed, and purposely taught?
What could fuzzy isoglosses mean?
What is, they could mean that a dialect is either expanding or declining in use?
What is the most prominent example of reassimilation in the U.S.?
What is the trail of tears and indian movement
Who was a famous linguist that had once said, " a language is a dialect with an army"?
Who is Max Weinreich?
What year did the French Government pass a law banning the use of foreign words in certain areas?
What is, 1975?
What language doesn't have words for "yes" and "no"?
What is, Irish?
What linguistic geographer published atlases of dialects in the United States, defining Northern, Southern, and Midland dialects?
Who is Hans Kurath?
Give 2 examples of every-day assimilation.
What is ?