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Chapter Eleven
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Undergraduate 2
11/09/2014

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Accent
Definition
Systematic phonological variation among dialects.
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Code-switching
Definition
Movement from one language to another or from one variety of a language to another depending on the social or linguistic situation.
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Community of practice
Definition
Group of speakers who share speech practices because they engage in a common enterprise.
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Covert prestige
Definition
Value that a nonstandard variety of a language carries within a speech community.
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Dialect
Definition
Variety of a language, whether regional or social, systematically different from other varieties of the same language in structural or lexical features.
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Isogloss
Definition
Line that separates an area that uses one lexical item, grammatical construction, or pronunciation from another area on a dialect map.
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Overt prestige
Definition
Value that a variety of a language carries within a speech community.
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Sociolinguistics
Definition
Study of language in use, especially in terms of variation.
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Speech community
Definition
Group of speakers who share linguistic norms and ideologies.
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