“It definitely sharpened my interest in language, the way people used language, slang words, speech patterns. There 's a big advantage to being the outsider” (1). This is a quote by Amy Heckerling, and it explains how speech patterns often go unnoticed by people of a certain group. A person with a southern accent believes that their accent is the normal, and a person with a Boston accent does not think they have one. Clive Thompson’s article “He and She; What’s the Real Difference?” explains an experiment that created an algorithm that is able to identify whether a piece of text was written by a male or female. The algorithm is surprisingly very accurate, and is more often correct than incorrect; furthermore, it uses keywords to be able to identify the gender. Paul Roberts’ article “Speech Communities” is an in depth explanation of how a child develops their speech patterns. While in the early years of development, the child receives most of
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In Roberts’ article he states, “In England, class differences have often been more prominent than those of age or place. If you were the blacksmith’s boy, you might know the son of the local baronet, but you didn’t speak his language. You spoke the language of your social group, and he that of his, and over the centuries these social dialects remained widely separated” (329). England today is still separated by the difference in dialects and accents, and it is easy to tell someone’s background and family history solely based on the way they are speaking. It is hard to cross the social lines because of the great barrier that language creates,and England is a great example of how speech patterns are developed between groups of people. The upper class will speak better English because of the availability of education, but the lower class does not have that option for schooling, so they often have improper grammar and mispronounced
In Roberts’ article he states, “In England, class differences have often been more prominent than those of age or place. If you were the blacksmith’s boy, you might know the son of the local baronet, but you didn’t speak his language. You spoke the language of your social group, and he that of his, and over the centuries these social dialects remained widely separated” (329). England today is still separated by the difference in dialects and accents, and it is easy to tell someone’s background and family history solely based on the way they are speaking. It is hard to cross the social lines because of the great barrier that language creates,and England is a great example of how speech patterns are developed between groups of people. The upper class will speak better English because of the availability of education, but the lower class does not have that option for schooling, so they often have improper grammar and mispronounced