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Anonymous Posted 17 years ago
Linguistics Studies
A dialect?
So is Standard English also a dialect, then?
(English is "A language so widely distributed naturally has many varieties. These are known
as dialects.1 That word doesn’t apply just to rural or uneducated forms of speech;
the way we use it here, everyone speaks a dialect. And naturally, this book doesn’t
try to describe all the different dialects of English there are. It concentrates on one
central dialect that is particularly important: the one that we callStandard English.
http://assets.cambridge.org/97805218/48374/excerpt/9780521848374_excerpt.pdf
(English is "A language so widely distributed naturally has many varieties. These are known
as dialects.1 That word doesn’t apply just to rural or uneducated forms of speech;
the way we use it here, everyone speaks a dialect. And naturally, this book doesn’t
try to describe all the different dialects of English there are. It concentrates on one
central dialect that is particularly important: the one that we callStandard English.
http://assets.cambridge.org/97805218/48374/excerpt/9780521848374_excerpt.pdf
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Standard English is a dialect. Other varieties of English have not devleoped from Standard English, but rather they and Standard English have developed from a common ancestor.
- Standard English is a dialect.
- Other varieties of English have not devleoped from Standard English, but rather they and Standard English have developed from a common ancestor.
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Standard English is a dialect. Other varieties of English have not devleoped from Standard English, but rather they and Standard English have developed from a common ancestor.
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