Dialects, Idoims, Slang, and Pronuciation of the American Language

The results I received after taking the dialect quiz were surprisingly accurate. The three cities that I received were Yonkers, New York, and Jersey City. These three cities really surprised me because although I don’t live in Yonkers or Jersey City, my closest friend throughout high school lived in Yonkers and my closest cousins lived in Jersey. While taking the test, most of my answers did not point to New York so I was not expecting it to be as correct as it was. I do feel that I have a dialect that sometimes comes off as rude however, I never mean it that way and once I know someone they usually see how down to earth and understanding I am. I’m excited to major in Speech Pathology to be able to not only help those who need assistance in

Using dialect in society is natural and people can often not control how they sound. When that same person writes however they are expected to drop their dialect and only use proper english. Vershawn Ashanti Young discusses this topic in his article “Should Writer’s Use They Own English?”. Young has several good points including that their accent comes through their writing and that “code meshing” can be effective in a person's’ writing. On the contrary, I agree more with the fact that we need a “universal” way of speaking in America, because of the fact that it is harder to learn several “languages” as a child and it would be almost impossible for people from other countries to learn all the slang if we don't have one set way of speaking.

Language is the system of communication used by people worldwide. It’s a human faculty that distinguishes human beings from animals. English is considered a universal language that many countries use as a native language like Britain and Australia or as a second language like India. Wherever English is available, it offers a better communication between citizens of a country and travelers. Like all languages, English has variations in its pronunciation and accents. Sometimes misspelling of words leads to misunderstandings between people. Therefore, everyone should study phonetics which is the study of sounds made by the human voice in speech. Phonetics can be divided into : sounds, letters, consonants, and vowels.

It seems that dialects all boil down to early childhood language development and who a child’s first influences are when they learn to speak. These influences primarily come from a child’s immediate care giver which is usually their parents. The New York dialect therefore is passed down from one generation to the next in a traditional sense. I will make a mental note to resist correcting other people’s English, which is a bad habit of

United States of America, small in history but large in diversity continues to face new challenges with language as time continues to turn. In the documentary “Do You Speak American?” Robert MacNeil analyzes the English language and reveals many dialects that culturally defines us. Regional dialect is one of the many strongholds of all cultures and now it has reached its’ zenith and today it is slowly declining because it does not possess the human nature of advancement. Optimistically, it allows people to learn how to cooperate with each other. In order to advance and adopt a person has to change; I believe that the acceptance of cultural adaptations, diversity, and industrialization can prove that the decline of speech does not cause a

The great characteristics of Maine’s dialects had been clearly discussed in the Dialect Project 1 such as rich vocabularies, various syntaxes, different morphologies, and unique lexicon. However, the main goal of this project is to explore those previously explained concepts to see how Maine’s dialects are received such as negative or positive, inaccurate or not, too exaggerate or too simple, and how various ways of linguistics are presented in real life situations. Speaking of phonology, the descriptions of words are exactly what explained in the Dialect Project 1, which is there are many words are being pronounced with the Ah sound like the pronunciation of the word “father.” Moreover, there are different words but have the same pronunciations in Maine’s dialects. Beyond this similarity, the other thing seems inaccurate is the pronunciation of the letter R. The demonstration of this project will demonstrate that the word R is pronounced very soft and less stressed. Syntactically, the word order, phrases or idioms in Maine’s dialects are very broad, rich, and its ridiculous meaning might make people confuse sometimes. Last but not least is the variation lexicon that some words are written in SAE, but the meaning is slightly different overall.

Linguist and Cajun Megan E. Melancon calls the Cajun dialect a “gumbo”. There are many languages that make up this gumbo. The various languages include Spanish, French, German, and English. The Cajun language is mainly spoken in Southern Louisiana, but can reach into parts of Southern Texas and Southern Mississippi due to emigration (Melancon).

At Morgan State University, the student population is uniquely diverse. Students come from different parts of the United States to gain a degree and to experience all that Morgan has to offer. As of Fall 2016, the most frequent state of residency included: Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, District of Columbia, Virginia, and other states ("Enrollment Data” 1). These states not only brought a variety of personalities, but as well as a variety of languages. Students from each of these states have a dialect specific to their region in where they live. A case study of dialect on the campus of Morgan State University revealed the phonetic, morphological, and lexical differences of the American English language in the Northern and Southern

I felt more than a little surprised when my family moved from California to Utah. The first surprise was finding out that Utah existed, and the second was the language. Everybody spoke English, but there were small, interesting differences. T’s tended to be rounded almost to the point of a D. Mountain, for example, sounded like “moundin.” Stake houses, where people would gather and eat, were very different than steakhouses, where people would gather and eat. Things were different in Utah.

The United States of America is one of the world’s most ethnically diverse and multicultural nations. Even though there is not an official national language, most Americans speak Standard American English (SAE). However, the most prevalent native English vernacular dialect in the United States is African American Vernacular English (AAVE). According to Sharon Vaughn, AAVE is “a dialect used by some African Americans” (110). In order to examine AAVE, one must explore the origins, grammatical features, and prominent resolutions, which created a precedent for educating students that speak dialects other than Standard American English.

While this second segment of the book maps onto the recorded time of the Kiowa brilliant age, Momaday opens with a story that fits better with the time of Kiowa decrease (set apart by their annihilation on account of the U.S. military, and reflected by the opening area's portrayal of adversaries at the doors). Momaday has demanded that, while the Kiowa destiny has been a troublesome one, the account of his kin ought not be comprehended as a catastrophe. This entry, similar to the keep going, additionally expands on the subject of foes invading Kiowa life. The accentuation on the force of dialect is critical here. The section likewise comes back to the significance of senior citizens. The story that the tribal voice tells is another accentuation

Verbal -s is a linguistic phenomenon that occurs both in African American Dialects and within the Northern Subject Rule. In the NSR, it consists of two separate constraints: the subject type and proximity type rule. The subject type rule states that when a subject is a pronoun, no verbal -s will be used, that is unless it is used in a third person singular. The proximity type rule states that that when the subject of a sentence is not located directly next to the verb, then the presence of verbal -s will be present. An example of the proximity rule is the sentence “I usually goes to the store.” There is an s following the word “go” because of this rule. Its presence in AAVE is much more complex and less researched; in class, we looked at three papers that all discussed the use of verbal -s and its use in several African American Dialects from all around the United States.

That is why they take part as forerunners in the United Nations. On the attribute of being informal and realistic, Americans are most comfortable when they are informal; this is not only confined to dress code and manners, but to all aspects of their lives. They are known for being able to break the fetters and find their way to the rooftop. In terms of being realistic they may or may not assume that their acquaintances are also their close friends. It is obvious that their variation in English language is strange all over but this does not hinder people from accepting them the way they are. The differences in spelling and pronunciation make more sense. It is not easy for a person who is not born in America to develop a system that is distinctly American.

African American English is diverging from Standard American English. As shown in Do You Speak American (2005), AAE originates from the time of the trans-Atlantic slave trade. English was introduced to trade ports in Africa by colonialists, resulting in the creation of pidgin - a mixture of English and African languages that is still in use today. More recently, African Americans who have moved from the South to the North have been more segregated, creating greater divergence between AAE and SAE. As many African Americans maintain ties to the South, such as continued contact with friends or family in the south, similarities between AAE and southern dialects remain. However, each group have selected features that are important, such as maintaining ‘r’ in the North or keeping certain features as a way of preserving history, resulting in different dialect patterns between the North and the South to develop.

African American Vernacular English (AAVE) is the variety previously known as Black English Vernacular or Vernacular Black English by sociolinguists, and commonly called Ebonics outside the academic community. However, some characteristics of AAVE are seemingly unique in its structure. It also includes a number of standard and nonstandard English varieties are spoken by the US and the Caribbean people. AAVE has been the core of many public debates and also the analysis of this variety has encouraged and sustained debates amongst sociolinguists.  Some speakers may use some special aspects of pronunciation and vocabulary. Nevertheless, the grammatical features are not connected with the variety. Several sociolinguists would reserve the term AAVE for varieties which are marked by the existence of specific distinctive grammatical features and some of them are discussed below. The history of AAVE and what language varieties it is related to are also a matter of argument. Some scholars confirm that AAVE developed out a connection between speakers of West African languages and speakers of vernacular English varieties. According to such an opinion, West Africans learnt English on plantations in the southern Coastal States from very few native speakers. Some say that this led to the development of a rudimentary pidgin, a very simple language which has been extended through a process of colorization later.