Regional & Social Dialect

Regional Dialect is based on ______ factor

The following are the factors that contribute to social dialect EXCEPT

• Gender

• Location

• Age

• Occupation

How can we explicate the difference between English varieties?

• Pronunciation

• Grammar

• Writing

• Lexical Items

Lines on dialect maps showing the boundaries between two regions which differ with respect to some linguistic feature.

The boundary lines are called _________

What is Received Pronunciation (RP)?

• King's English

• Queen's English

'A person’s dialect is an indication of their background' refers to....?

• Social Dialect

• Standard English

• Caste Dialect

Diversities in language can be studied through the following EXCEPT

• Geographical

• Social

• Functional

• Grammar

What do we call a variation in a language that involves the use of different word choices, spellings, and pronunciations?

• an accent

• mutual intelligibility

• a dialect

• diction

Some people say the word 'thunder' with a distinct pronunciation of the 'r' at the end. Others, might say the same word and leave the 'r' sound off to end their pronunciation sounding more like 'ah'. These differences in pronunciation are called _____.

• accent

• intelligibility

• linguistic evolution

• a neutral version of the same word

Dialect refers to the sounds of speech, so it's a phonological feature

• True

• False