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18 Cards in this Set
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unilingual
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people who can only speak a single language
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bilingual
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people who speak two languages fluently
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multilingual
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people who can speak more than two languages.
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polyglot
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another word for a multilingual person
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dialect
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variations of a parent language
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SAE
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Standard American English. spoken by the educated middle class. taught in school.
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AAE
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African American English. aka black english, BEV, or ebonics. most speakers are monolingual users of english.
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Latino
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people of diverse spanish heritage.
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accent
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differences in pronunciation. all people talk with an accent, but majority lang. accent not noticeable.
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primary english dialect
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english is first language
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secondary english dialect
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different primary dialect
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code switching
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use more than one dialect
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register
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variations of a language that depend upon speaking situations. i.e. motherese.
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language mixing
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words from two languages in one sentence.
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spanglish
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a mix of english and spanish
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engrish
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english influenced by asian languages
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simultaneous bilingualism
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mixing words and grammar of two different languages. usually children; sorted out by age 2 or 3.
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sequential bilingualism
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begins to learn second language by 3rd birthday.
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