PPT-Understanding “dialect”

Activity In your small group please discuss the following questions Be prepared to share with your classmates What does the term dialect mean How many different dialects can you name. What do these three things have in common? . “. Yo. ’ ole father . doan. ’ know . yit. what he’s a- . gwyne. to do”, . Amy Walker. people groups . (. You will find out by the end of today.) . A Tall Tale. What images come to mind when you hear the word “Lumberjack”. About the Author. Esther . Shephard. Born in Minneapolis, Minnesota in 1891. At this time, exploring the American Frontier was coming to an end. Was . haben. . wir. . gelernt. ?. Later: . Cultural and Language Projects!. . 1. Jill and Kasey. . 2. Sarah and Lauren. Goal: . Identifying material and non-material culture from various countries. Fadi Biadsy. April 12. th. , 2010. 1. Outline. Problem . Motivation. Corpora. Framework for Language Recognition. Experiments in Dialect Recognition . Phonotactic Modeling . Prosodic Modeling. Acoustic Modeling. We Speak Unique:. Folk Linguistic Perceptions and Attitudes of Dialect in Japan. Introduction: Research Area. Perceptual Dialectology. Dialect in Japan. Perceptual vs. Production . Based-Data. “Dialect Identity”. Tom Sawyer movie clip. About Author . “What’s in a name” – Shakespeare wrote this. Importance of your name?. “Mark Twain” is a pseudonym or pen name . Real name is Samuel Langhorne Clemens.. K.T.KHADER. IUG-GAZA. Language variation. No . two speakers of a language . speak exactly . the same way. No individual speaker speaks the . same way . all the time. Language Varieties. Language variety refers to the various forms of language triggered by social factors.. Nature of a language . The linguist makes no value judgment. S/he recognizes and accepts the existence of language varieties. . School traditions emphasize a single “correct” standard form.. Linguistics acknowledges that a certain dialect may be treated as a standard form . Zainab. Fatmah. Samera. Contents:. Age – graded features of speech. Age and social dialect data. Age grading and language change. AGE-GRADED FEATURES OF SPEECH. Their voice quality reflects their physical growth. Boy vocal cords generally grow faster and bigger than girl at . By: Prabjot, Sajida, Davette, Molly and Amy. Introduction. Language. is a set of rules for generating speech. Language is . learned. instead of being . biologically inherited. . Symbols. are . sounds. From . diaLECT. . we. . now. talk . about. . sociolect. and . other. “-. lects. ”.. Written. and . S. poken. Language. Written texts. Hybrid varieties. Spoken texts. Factual reports, technical. Dialect. is . an author’s use of speech patterns (way . of . speaking) characterizing a characters background and/or geographical . area or certain group of people. . Dialect helps to make a character and setting appear realistic.. An Introduction to Sociolinguistics. : Ronald . Wardhaugh. Overview. Important Terms:. VARIETY. LANGUAGE. DIALECT. Dialect geography, isoglosses, boundaries, and continuum. VERNACULAR. PATOIS. KOINE. Introduction to Accent and Dialect Study. Read the following definition of accent and dialect carefully:. Where we are from is important to people – hence support for football teams from our home region, returning to our roots at Christmas, etc. Nearly all of us have .