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Definition

A dialect pocket, or the regionally restricted extension of one dialect area into an adjacent one for example, the Hoosier apex is an extension of Southern speech in Southern Indiana and Illinois.

Source: American English, second edition by Walt Wolfram and Natalie Schilling-Estes

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+ Differentiation

+ Modern English *

+ Performance Error *

+ Prescriptive Grammar *

+ Mental Grammar *

+ Founder Effect

+ Nonarbitrariness *

+ Linguistic Competence *

+ Linguistic Performance *

+ Sound Symbolism *

+ Constructed Language *

+ Natural Languages *

+ Onomatopoeia *

+ Descriptive Grammar *

+ Design Features Of Language *

+ Transformation

+ Formal Language *

+ Code (Modality) *

+ Gyrus (Plural: Gyri) *

+ Language Acquisition *

+ Neurolinguistics *

+ Psycholinguistics *

+ Temporal Lobe *

+ Occipital Lobe *

+ Parietal Lobe *

+ Corpus Callosum *

+ Visual Cortex *

+ Sylvian Fissure *

+ Auditory Cortex *

+ Motor Cortex *

+ Language Center *

+ Broca's Area *

+ Wernicke's Area *

+ Arcuate Fasciculus *

+ Angular Gyrus *

+ Lateralization *

+ Contralaterality *

+ Dichotic Listening Task *

+ Split Brain Patient *

+ Hemispherectomy *

+ Speech Production *

+ Speech Perception *

+ Lexical Processing *

+ Language Variation *

+ Double Modal *

+ Sociolinguistics *

+ Linguistic Anthropology *

+ Contraction *

+ Traffic Analysis *

+ Language Contact *

+ Historical Linguistics *

+ Corpus Linguistics *

+ Tabular Method *

+ Code (Cryptology) *

+ Communicative Approach *

+ Decipherment *

+ Audiologist *

+ Key Distribution Problem *

+ Monoalphabetic Cipher *

+ One Time Pad *

+ Polyalphabetic Cipher *

+ Shift Cipher *

+ Speech Language Pathologist *

+ Anosognosia *

+ Auditory Vocal Language *

+ Aural Oral Language *

+ Commnication Chain *

+ Forensic Linguistics *

+ Left Hemisphere *

+ Right Hemisphere *

+ Visual Gestural Language *

+ Address Form *

+ African American English *

+ African Diaspora *

+ Age Grading *

+ Cascade Diffusion *

+ Change From Above *

+ Four Part Analogy *

+ Minority Pattern Analogy *

+ Anglicist Hypothesis *

+ Apparent Time Hypothesis *

+ Applied Dialectology *

+ Attention To Speech *

+ Backchanneling *

+ Basilectal Stereotype *

+ Bidialectalism *

+ Camouflaged Form *

+ Canadian Raising *

+ Audience Design *

+ Chain Shifting *

+ Change From Below *

+ Change From Outside *

+ Change From Within *

+ Channel Cues *

+ Communication Network *

+ Completion Task *

+ Conflict Model *

+ Consensus Model *

+ Consonant Cluster *

+ Consonant Cluster Reduction *

+ Contagious Diffusion *

+ Constraint (On Variability) *

+ Content Validity *

+ Contrahierarchical Diffusion *

+ Contrastive Drill *

+ Dialect Leveling *

+ Copula Deletion *

+ Creolist Hypothesis *

+ Critical Age Hypothesis *

+ Cultural Difference Approach *

+ Decreolization *

+ Deficit Approach *

+ Deficit Difference Controversy *

+ Definition By Ostentation *

+ Derivational Morpheme *

+ Dialect Discrimination *

+ Dialect Reader *

+ Dialect Rights *

+ Dialectally Diagnostic *

+ Direct Transfer Model *

+ Discrimination Drill *

+ Divergence Hypothesis *

+ Dominance Approach *

+ Early Adopters *

+ Eavesdropper *

+ Elicitation Frame *

+ Empowering Research *

+ Endangered Dialect *

+ Endonormative Stabilization *

+ Eradicationism *

+ Error Analysis *

+ Existential *

+ Exonormative Stabilization *

+ Eye Dialect *

+ Figurative Extension *

+ First Order Constraint *

+ Formal Standard English *

+ Fossilized Form *

+ Foundation Stage *

+ General American English *

+ General Social Significance *

+ Glottal Stop *

+ Group Exclusive *

+ Gradient Stratification *

+ Fine Stratification *

+ Intervocalic *

+ Grammaticalization *

+ Gravity Model *

+ Group Preferential *

+ Group Reference *

+ Historical Present *

+ Inflectional Morpheme *

+ Informal Standard English *

+ Linguistic Geography *

+ Inherent Variability *

+ Initiative Style Shift *

+ Interruption *

+ Irregular Form *

+ Language Idealogy *

+ Language Sample *

+ Lexicographer *

+ Linguistic Constraint *

+ Linguistic Environment *

+ Linguistic Inferiority Principle *

+ Linguistic Intuitions *

+ Linguistic Marketplace *

+ Linguistic Profiling *

+ Linguistic Rule *

+ Moribund Dialect *

+ Morphosyntactic *

+ Linguistic Variable *

+ Low Back Merger *

+ Meaning Shift *

+ Metalinguistic Task *

+ Mock Language *

+ Multiplex Network *

+ Naturalistic Speech *

+ Negative Concord *

+ Network Standard *

+ Neutralization *

+ Nonstandard *

+ Objective Case *

+ Observer's Paradox *

+ Oppositional Identity *

+ Perceptual Dialectology *

+ Personal Dative *

+ Phonemic Brackets *

+ Phonetic Brackets *

+ Phrase Timing *

+ Postconsonantal *

+ Postvocalic R *

+ Prescriptive Standard English *

+ Primary Dialect Area *

+ Principle Of Debt Incurred *

+ Principle Of Error Correction *

+ Principle Of Linguistic Gratuity *

+ Pronomial Apposition *

+ Rule Extension *

+ Semantic Broadening *

+ Referee Design *

+ Referee Group *

+ Regional Standard English *

+ Regular Form *

+ Regularization *

+ Relative Clause *

+ Relative Pronoun *

+ Secondary Dialect Area *

+ Semantic Derogation *

+ Semantic Narrowing *

+ Short Vowel *

+ Social Dialectology *

+ Social Indicator *

+ Social Marker *

+ Social Network *

+ Social Stereotype *

+ Socially Diagnostic *

+ Socially Prestigious *

+ Socially Stigmatized *

+ Socioeconomic Status *

+ Social Variable *

+ Diachronic Linguistics *

+ Southern Vowel Shift *

+ Speaker Design *

+ Speech Accommodation Theory *

+ Spelling Pronunciation *

+ Statistical Hypercorrection *

+ Structural Hypercorrection *

+ Subjective Case *

+ Substrate Effect *

+ Substrate Hypothesis *

+ Superstandard English *

+ Syllable Timing *

+ Stress Timing *

+ Supra Regional Norm *

+ Symbolic Capital *

+ Task Interference *

+ Tertiary Dialect Area *

+ Transitional Zone *

+ Transparency Principle *

+ Turn Taking *

+ Uniplex Network *

+ Vowel Breaking *

+ Vowel Reduction *

+ Vowel Rotation *

+ Word Medial *

+ Metalanguage *

+ Bilingual Eduation Program *

+ Caretaker Speech *

+ Comparative Linguistics *

+ Connotative Meaning *

+ Downgrading *

+ Early Modern English *

+ Ethnocentricity *

+ Finger Spelling *

+ Generative Grammar *

+ Global English *

+ Globalization *

+ Great Vowel Shift *

+ Grimm's Law *

+ Immersion Program *

+ Indo European *

+ International Phonetic Alphabet *

+ Linguistic Relativity Hypothesis *

+ Transliterate *

+ Maxims Of Conversation *

+ Mean Length Of Utterance (Mlu) *

+ Middle English *

+ Native Speaker *

+ Old English *

+ Perceptual Phonetics *

+ Place Of Articulation *

+ Sapir Whorf Hypothesis *

+ Speech Act Theory *

+ Computational Linguistics *

+ Black English *

+ Absolute Position *

+ Sharp Stratification *

+ Speakerly Text *

+ Applied Linguistics *

+ Illocutionary Force *

+ Frontal Lobe *

+ Vernacular Principle *

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