Engl 1514 quiz - Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

speech community a group of people who share a set of norms and expectations regarding the use of language free variation 1 term used to refer to two sounds that occur in overlapping environments but cause no distinction in the meaning of their respective words free variation 2 refers to allophone production that is not tied to a particular phonetic environment Structured Vision ... sociolinguistic competence the ability to interpret the social meaning that language conv...