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Samenvatting - Oral Communication Skills (OCS) chapter 9
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The document is a summary of chapter 9 on sociolinguistics, which discusses the relationship between language and social factors such as class, ethnicity, age, and gender. It focuses on dialects and variations in English, particularly ethnic varieties such as African American Vernacular English (AA...

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  • October 22, 2024
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  • 2019/2020
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  • ethnic dialects
  • sociolonguistics
  • social class and linguistic variation
  • african american vernacular english aave

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  • Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen (RU)
  • American studies
  • Oral Communication Skills
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Based on social class and situation. Other things are gender and age

Ethnic dialects

Meaning of the word dialect

Meaning sociolinguistics

North-east: r-lessness after vowels
Park the car in the Harvard yard -> Pahk the cah in the havahd yahd.

Three sorts of variation:
- Social factors
- Position of the /r/ in a word
- Speech situation (formal/informal)

South: southern drawl. Raising of /e/ to /I/. /ai/ becomes nasalized and lengthened. Before
an /N/ the /Z/ becomes /d/.

Vocabulary: loanwords for foods

Anymore means nowadays or these days

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