By Pronunciation, Dialects

>> whereas the General American pronunciation is /I'moudiKa:n/. d = flapped /t/<< Interesting. I would say it with a are allophones of the same vowel, and would not affect the meaning, so since you are using / / notation, you can't mark in the vowel length.

>> Isn't it interesting that certain forms of American pronunciation aare older than the British ones? E.g., the short 'a' sound in "glass" and "pass" that the Americans use was the sound used in British English, till they changed it for the preferred long 'AH' sound. << Yes, most...

Isn't it interesting that certain forms of American pronunciation aare older than the British ones? E.g., the short 'a' sound in "glass" and "pass" that the Americans use was the sound used in British English, till they changed it for the preferred long 'AH' sound.

#2 is not correct. "When dialects diverge to the point that they are mutually incomprehensible, they become languages in their own right" That is not always the case. For example, "Chinese" dialects are mutually unintelligible, but "Chinese" is often regarded as being a language. Swedish,...

Hi, I would say #3, Wikipedia then. The other two definitions are biased in my opinion, they consider mainly English and its variations. I already gave my opinion in the other thread about dialects, where I said that in my opinion a dialect is a language that is not standardized...

Which of the following three descriptions best describes dialect? 1 'One of the subordinate forms of varieties of a language arising from local peculiarities of pronunciation and idiom.'

The following constucted dialect will give you what will sound like a Cockney accent to North Americans. All you have to do is change how you pronounce certain things differently and you will sound like a Cockney. The goal is to intruduce as many pronunciation differences as possible, to make...

Sorry to contradict you, but that is exactly what is happening in the USA today. Speakers of other Standard variants and indeed taking classes in using Standard American English. The question is, why don't Standard American English speakers, want to do the same when they plan to have long-term...

Just who would that "we" be?The "we" being most other speakers of other dialects of English. When "we" hear Indian-English, especially in places where that is very rare, such as here, we simply perceive it as being an English as a Second language non-native speaker of English, with grammar and...

>just a way=only a manner A dialect is the special way people from a given area of a country speak and write. Sometimes, the spelling is different, or the meanings are different, or the pronunciation is different. Also,...