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In linguistics, a basilect is a dialect of speech that has diverged considerably from an acrolect, or standard, "educated", variety of the language. A basilect and the acrolect in which it originated may eventually reach mutual unintelligibility.
University of Chicago linguist Salikoko Mufwene explains the phenomenon of creole languages as "basilectalization" away from a standard, often European, language among a mixed European and non-European population.[1] In certain speech communities, a continuum exists between speakers of a creole language and a related standard language.
Basilects typically differ from the standard language in pronunciation, vocabulary, and grammar, and can often develop into different languages, as the basilects of Vulgar Latin eventually developed into different Romance languages.
A modern example would be the variants of colloquial Arabic whose most divergent members are mutually unintelligible. Even more recently, spoken Haïtian and Cajun have separated so clearly from Standard French that speakers of these languages must learn French as a foreign language.
At present, the terms basilect/mesolect/acrolect are used in preference to earlier terminology which included the implicit or explicit assumption that members of the ruling class in a country's political and economic centers were speaking and writing the "correct" form of their language while the lower classes and inhabitants of outlying provinces were speaking "dialects" or "mistaken", "debased" or "vulgar" forms of the language. Research into attitudes towards specific basilects has suggested that such assumptions often have little or no grounding in observable linguistic fact. Steve Thorne, for example, analyses attitudes towards Brummie, the British English basilect, and finds that attitudes towards this variety of English are influenced by external factors, such as prejudices promoted by the mass media, rather than inherent linguistic inferiority.
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A dialect (from the Greek word διάλεκτος, dialektos) is a variety of a language characteristic of a particular group of the language's speakers.
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A language is a system of symbols and the rules used to manipulate them. Language can also refer to the use of such systems as a general phenomenon.
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University of Chicago linguist Salikoko Mufwene explains the phenomenon of creole languages as "basilectalization" away from a standard, often European, language among a mixed European and non-European population.[1] In certain speech communities, a continuum exists between speakers of a creole language and a related standard language.
Basilects typically differ from the standard language in pronunciation, vocabulary, and grammar, and can often develop into different languages, as the basilects of Vulgar Latin eventually developed into different Romance languages.
A modern example would be the variants of colloquial Arabic whose most divergent members are mutually unintelligible. Even more recently, spoken Haïtian and Cajun have separated so clearly from Standard French that speakers of these languages must learn French as a foreign language.
At present, the terms basilect/mesolect/acrolect are used in preference to earlier terminology which included the implicit or explicit assumption that members of the ruling class in a country's political and economic centers were speaking and writing the "correct" form of their language while the lower classes and inhabitants of outlying provinces were speaking "dialects" or "mistaken", "debased" or "vulgar" forms of the language. Research into attitudes towards specific basilects has suggested that such assumptions often have little or no grounding in observable linguistic fact. Steve Thorne, for example, analyses attitudes towards Brummie, the British English basilect, and finds that attitudes towards this variety of English are influenced by external factors, such as prejudices promoted by the mass media, rather than inherent linguistic inferiority.
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Linguistics is the scientific study of language, which can be theoretical or applied. Someone who engages in this study is called a linguist...... Click the link for more information.
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A dialect (from the Greek word διάλεκτος, dialektos) is a variety of a language characteristic of a particular group of the language's speakers.
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An acrolect is a register of a spoken language that is considered formal and high-style.
In the early 1970s Derek Bickerton proposed the words acrolect, mesolect, and basilect
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In the early 1970s Derek Bickerton proposed the words acrolect, mesolect, and basilect
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A language is a system of symbols and the rules used to manipulate them. Language can also refer to the use of such systems as a general phenomenon.
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The University of Chicago is a private university located principally in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Chicago. Founded in 1890 by the American Baptist Education Society and the oil magnate John D. Rockefeller, the University of Chicago held its first classes on October 1, 1892.
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Salikoko Mufwene is Frank J. McLoraine Distinguished Service Professor of linguistics at the University of Chicago. He has worked extensively on the development of creole languages, as well as on African American Vernacular English. He received his Ph.D.
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A creole language, or simply a creole, is a stable language that originates seemingly as a "new" language, sometimes with features that are not inherited from any apparent source, without however qualifying in any appreciable way as a mixed language.
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post-creole continuum (or creole continuum) may arise. It is a process wherein a creole language will decreolize and become closer in phonology, morphology, and syntax to the standard of the dominant language but to different degrees depending on a speaker's status and
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A creole language, or simply a creole, is a stable language that originates seemingly as a "new" language, sometimes with features that are not inherited from any apparent source, without however qualifying in any appreciable way as a mixed language.
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A standard language (also standard dialect or standardized dialect) is a particular variety of a language that has been given either legal or quasi-legal status.
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Vulgar Latin (in Latin, sermo vulgaris, "common speech") is a blanket term covering the vernacular dialects and sociolects of the Latin language until those dialects, diverging still further, evolved into the early Romance languages — a distinction usually made
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Romance languages (sometimes referred to as Romanic languages) are a branch of the Indo-European language family that comprisies all the languages that descend from Latin, the language of the Roman Empire.
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- See Arabic languages for the historical family of dialects.
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In linguistics, mutual intelligibility is a property exhibited by a set of languages when speakers of any one of them can readily understand all the others without intentional study or extraordinary effort.
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Haitian Creole language (kreyòl ayisyen), often called simply Creole, is a language spoken in Haiti by about 8.5 million people (as of 2005), which is nearly the entire population, and via emigration, about 3.
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Cajun French (sometimes called Louisiana Regional French [2] ) is one of three varieties or dialects of the French language spoken primarily in the U.S. state of Louisiana, specifically in the southern parishes.
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French (français, pronounced [fʁɑ̃ˈsɛ]) is a Romance language originally spoken in France, Belgium, Luxembourg, and Switzerland, and today by about 300 million people around the world as either
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Steve Thorne (born 1967) is a British linguist and writer.
Born in Birmingham, England, Thorne graduated from the University of Birmingham with a First Class Honours degree in English in 2000 and a PhD in Linguistics in 2003.
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Born in Birmingham, England, Thorne graduated from the University of Birmingham with a First Class Honours degree in English in 2000 and a PhD in Linguistics in 2003.
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Brummie (sometimes Brummy) is a colloquial term for the inhabitants, accent and dialect of Birmingham, England, as well as being a general adjective used to denote a connection with the city, locally called Brum.
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British English (BrE, BE, en-GB) is the broad term used to distinguish the forms of the English language used in the United Kingdom from forms used elsewhere in the Anglophone world.
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A mesolect is term referring to a register or range of registers of spoken language whose character falls somewhere between the prestige of the acrolect and the informality of the basilect.
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An acrolect is a register of a spoken language that is considered formal and high-style.
In the early 1970s Derek Bickerton proposed the words acrolect, mesolect, and basilect
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In the early 1970s Derek Bickerton proposed the words acrolect, mesolect, and basilect
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