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Language or Dialect
Standardization
Regional Dialects
Styles, Registers, and Beliefs
100
A lanaguge without an army
What is a dialect?
100
A variety of a language organized for description in grammars and dictionaries and encoded in such reference works.
What is standard variety?
100
Where Heeringa and company completed their study.
What is the Netherlands?
100
The belief one variety or dialect of a language is more correct and better than any other.
What is prescriptive language?
200
A language a person grows up with and uses in everyday life
What is a vernacular?
200
How 'alive' a given language is.
What is vitality?
200
The acronym given to the Atlas of North American English project.
What is TELSUR?
200
Observations on how languages are spoken and used without classifying them as being better or worse or correct or incorrect.
What is descriptive language?
300
Due to political and religious reasons and the desire to establish different national identities these are considered to be two different languages
What are Hindi and Urdu?
300
The sense of identity offered through language.
What is historicity?
300
Difference between dialect and patois.
What is a writing system?
300
A variety of a language or set of language items used for a particular purpose or in a particular social setting.
What is a Register?
400
In which speakers of different but related varieties can readily understand each other without special effort.
What is mutual intelligibility?
400
Where a variety is regarded as sub-variety instead of independently
What is reduction?
400
When the DARE project ended.
When was Jan 2013?
400
A set of linguistic variants one can adopt, such as levels of formality, to which specific social meanings are attributed.
What is Style?
500
This language is considered low-prestige by the Thais (Thailand)
What is Lao (from Laos)?
500
Languages "pronounced not spoken, and studied rather than used."
What are dead standardized languages?
500
Linguistic feature that Eckert and Labov both touched upon.
What is the Northern City Vowel Shift?