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ling 115 unit 1The Invariant System Hypothesis - correct answer ✔LANGUAGE consists of:
-set of words
-rules of grammar and pronunciation
-people use these rules in the same way
Problem with Invariant System Hypothesis - correct answer ✔language
variation--> no two individuals make use of an identical set of rules or vocab
the same
idiolect - correct answer ✔unique personalized way that each individual uses
language
Mutual Intelligibility Hypothesis - correct answer ✔If 2 speakers can
understand each other when they speak (despite slight difference), they are
speaking two varieties of the same language
MIH counterexample (Type 1) - correct answer ✔2+ varieties of speech are
mutually intelligible but classified as different languages
ex: Hindi and Urdu
MIH counterexample (Type 2) - correct answer ✔2+ varieties are mutually
unintelligible but classified as varieties (dialects) of the same language
ex: Chinese, Mandarin, Taiwanese, Cantonese, Shanghainese are different
but classified as dialects of Chinese
, MIH counter conc - correct answer ✔MIH can't account for real-world
language-dialect divisions
Socio-political factors (language vs. dialect) - correct answer ✔Political
events and situations often lead to formal recognition of varieties either as
languages or dialects
serbo-croation - correct answer ✔-considered varieties of a single language
at first
-When Yugoslavia broke up, nationalists claimed they were different
languages
-even though mutually intelligble
"a language is a dialect with an army and a navy" - correct answer
✔Description of the distinction between dialect and language. It points out the
influence that political conditions can have over a community's perception of
the status of a language or dialect.
India (language vs. dialect sitch) - correct answer ✔-those in government
spoke Hindi and while doing the census, inflated numbers of those who spoke
Hindi
-wanted to push it as national language
-even though it wasn't majority language
why would governments recognize fewer languages than independent
observers would? - correct answer ✔governments want to downplay
diversity and offer ling rights to fewer groups
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