Dialect
What is an example of an English dialect that is hard to understand from an outsiders view? (we watched a video on it)
What is an Appalachian accent?
What are examples of lingua franca?
English, French, Spanish, etc
What is culture greatly interrelated to?
What is environment?
What is an artifact?
An item of culture, including tools, housing, systems of land use, clothing, etc.
What are the four major dialects of the US?
What are Northern, Midland, Western, and Southern dialects?
What are the two main causes that make dialects develop?
What is location and time?
What are the three main types of informal language?
Franglais, Denglish, and Spanglish are all examples of
Tailgating and the half-time show in the Super Bowl would be an example of..
What is a culture complex?
What is isogloss?
A boundary that separates regions in which different language is dominate.
At a quinceañera, what would be examples of artifacts?
The food eaten, the music listened to, the style of the dress, the theme/color scheme of the party, etc.
Why is sometimes difficult to distinguish a language from a dialect?
It is difficult to distinguish individual languages from dialects because many languages share similar words and pronunciations, since dialects stem from languages, which stem from a common ancestral trait.
17th century England colonizing North America, parts of Asia, Africa, and the South Pacific lead to..
What is diffusion of English?
What are the two main things that divide a culture?
What are language and religion?
What is a language branch?
A collection of languages related through a common ancestor that existed several thousand years ago
Which language branch was derived from Vulgar Latin, and formed the sub-group Italics on the Indo-European language family?
What is the Romance branch?
What causes difference in words/vocab that are from the same language?
As countries and their people are isolated from other countries, things like their climate, geography, and other factors can influence new vocabulary or words being added.
What are two examples of organizations that have several working languages that are recognized?
What are the United Nations and the European Union?
Electronics and technology can help do what to a culture?
What is helping culture diffuse?
What is a creolized language?
What is a language that results from the mixing of a colonizer's language with the indigenous language of the people being dominated.
Why are old words being given new meaning as culture ages?
As new generations are born, they take words already in the language and give them new meaning. This is how culture develops further.
What causes a dialect to become a language?
As countries and regions become more isolated and their dialects change over time, they can eventually separate and become their own languages.
What is the difference between a language branch and a language family?
A language family is a collection of languages that are connected by a common 'related' ancestral language, and were before recorded history. Language branches are a collection of languages that related through a common ancestor that existed several thousand years ago
What is happening to folk culture?
With the quick spread of pop culture via technology, folk culture, customs, and landscape are slowly dying.
What is the definition of pidgin?
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
Things like religion and national holidays that bring people together would be an example of?
What are centripetal forces?