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Essay Archive - Diversity Within English
Diversity Within English
In order to understand how language variation descriptors are used,
we first must understand what language variation is. We can say that the
U.S. is linguistically diverse because of the multitude of languages spoken
here, but we can also find diversity within these languages. All
languages have both dialectical variations and registral variations.
These variations, or dialects, can differ in lexicon, phonology, and/or
syntax from the Standard Language that we often think of as Ścorrect'
Language, although they are not necessarily less proper than, say,
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