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Ethnolect

An ethnolect is generally defined as a language variety that marks speakers as members of ethnic groups who originally used another language or distinctive variety. According to another definition, an ethnolect is any speech variety (language, dialect, subdialect) associated with a specific ethnic group. It may be a distinguishing mark of social…

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Ethnolect

Nodes51
Edges50
Triples122
Avg. degree1.96
Density0.039216
Components1

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related to Further reading · 24
Ethnolect → Beyond, Bilingualism, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, Clyne, Dynamics, Eckert, English, Ethnolects, Europe, International Journal, January, Lingua Franca, March, Mexican American English, Michael, New York, Penelope, S2CID, Sociolinguistica
related to Establishing identities · 11
Ethnolect → AAVE, African Americans, Canadian, Establishing, Italian, North Carolina, Second-generation Italian Canadians, Studies, Subscribing, Toronto, Using
related to Hypercorrection · 11
Ethnolect → Ethnic, Ethnolects, For, Italian, Jewish, New York, Often, Speakers, The, This, Yiddish
related to Types of ethnolects · 10
Ethnolect → African American Vernacular English, Examples, German Australian English, In, Jewish American English, Kiezdeutsch, Multicultural London English, One, Singapore English, The
related to African American Vernacular English (African-American ethnolect) · 7
Ethnolect → AAVE, African American Vernacular English, African-Americans, English, It, PhonologicalThe, Some
related to Chicano English (Mexican ethnolect) · 7
Ethnolect → Anglicised Spanish, Chicano English, LexicalBorrowing, Mexican Americans, Mexican-American English, Some, United States
related to Facilitating communication · 7
Ethnolect → Children, Common, English, Ethnolects, Speakers, The, This
related to overview · 7
Ethnolect → According, Ethnicity, Ethnolects, Joshua Fishman, Such, The, These
related to Out-group use · 6
Ethnolect → AAVE, African Americans, For, Non-group, Some, This
related to Crossing · 5
Ethnolect → Beyond, Considering, Crossing, In, Speakers

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ethnic language group english speakers ethnolects features linguistic may identity also used use social groups crossing american term ethnicity speech

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SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
phoneticsinstance ofThese distinguished linguistic features are present in areas0.80text
grammarinstance ofThese distinguished linguistic features are present in areas0.80text
syntaxinstance ofThese distinguished linguistic features are present in areas0.80text
lexiconinstance ofThese distinguished linguistic features are present in areas0.80text
the phonological variation among people of a shared ethnicityinstance ofor merely as ethnic variation from an abstract norm0.80text
Ethnolectrelated to African American Vernacular English (African-American ethnolect)African American Vernacular English0.60section
Ethnolectrelated to African American Vernacular English (African-American ethnolect)AAVE0.60section
Ethnolectrelated to African American Vernacular English (African-American ethnolect)English0.60section
Ethnolectrelated to African American Vernacular English (African-American ethnolect)It0.60section
Ethnolectrelated to African American Vernacular English (African-American ethnolect)African-Americans0.60section
Ethnolectrelated to African American Vernacular English (African-American ethnolect)Some0.60section
Ethnolectrelated to African American Vernacular English (African-American ethnolect)PhonologicalThe0.60section

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