- The term dialect is also to be differentiated from the term accent. A regional accent refers to features of pronunciation which convey information about a person’s geographical origin, e.g. bath [baө] as opposed to [ba:ө]; hold [həuld] and [əuld].
1.3.2.2. Regional variation - A regional dialect refers to features of grammar and vocabulary which convey information about a perons’s geographical origin. Compare, for instance, They real good and They are really good; Is it ready you are? and Are you ready?
- Speakers who have a distinctive regional dialect will have a distinctive regional accent but the reverse does not necessarily follow. It is possible to have a regional accent yet speak a dialect which conveys nothing about geographical origin.
- Their use of language is affected by their sex, age, ethnic group, and educational background. English is being increasingly affected by all these factors, because its developing role as a world language is bringing it more and more Into contact with new cultures and social systems.
- interspeaker variation, i.e. that is variation between individual speakers
- The same words strut, price, night, tide will be realized in two phonetic variants: as [strΛt] [prais] [nait] [taid] in London and as [strut] [preis] [neit] [teid] in the Fens.
1.3.2.4. Interspeaker variation and intraspeaker variation - the intraspeaker variation, i.e. variation within individual speakers.
- The following situation can be an example of intraspeaker variation when the same person will sometimes use one variant and sometimes the other variant or even alternate in different sentences. A woman on Bequia (the largest island in the Grenadines the native population being primarily a mixture of people of African, Scottish and Carib Indian descent) was heard calling to her grandson at dusk one evening. The exchange went like this:
Do'stlaringiz bilan baham: |
