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Definition

A hierarchical arrangement of dialect features in which successive areas show differing levels of shared dialect forms.

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

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+ Performance Error *

+ Prescriptive Grammar *

+ Linguistic Competence *

+ Linguistic Performance *

+ Sound Symbolism *

+ Constructed Language *

+ Natural Languages *

+ Onomatopoeia *

+ Phonetics *

+ Descriptive Grammar *

+ Design Features Of Language *

+ Gyrus (Plural: Gyri) *

+ Language Acquisition *

+ Idiolect *

+ Neurolinguistics *

+ Psycholinguistics *

+ Arcuate Fasciculus *

+ Angular Gyrus *

+ Lateralization *

+ Contralaterality *

+ Dichotic Listening Task *

+ Split Brain Patient *

+ Hemispherectomy *

+ Aphasia *

+ Speech Production *

+ Speech Perception *

+ Lexical Processing *

+ Language Variation *

+ Double Modal *

+ Sociolinguistics *

+ Pragmatics *

+ Linguistic Anthropology *

+ Historical Linguistics *

+ Corpus Linguistics *

+ Tabular Method *

+ Ciphertext *

+ Code (Cryptology) *

+ Communicative Approach *

+ Key Distribution Problem *

+ Monoalphabetic Cipher *

+ One Time Pad *

+ Polyalphabetic Cipher *

+ Shift Cipher *

+ Speech Language Pathologist *

+ Eve

+ Anosognosia *

+ Auditory Vocal Language *

+ Aural Oral Language *

+ Commnication Chain *

+ Convention *

+ Forensic Linguistics *

+ Visual Gestural Language *

+ Address Form *

+ Addressee *

+ 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 *

+ Argot *

+ Aspect *

+ Auxiliary *

+ Attention To Speech *

+ Avertive *

+ Backchanneling *

+ Bare Root *

+ Basilectal Stereotype *

+ Change From Below *

+ Change From Outside *

+ Change From Within *

+ Channel Cues *

+ Colloquial *

+ Communication Network *

+ Consonant Cluster *

+ Consonant Cluster Reduction *

+ Contagious Diffusion *

+ Constraint (On Variability) *

+ Content Validity *

+ Contrahierarchical Diffusion *

+ Contrastive Drill *

+ Copula *

+ Dialect Leveling *

+ Copula Deletion *

+ Creolist Hypothesis *

+ Critical Age Hypothesis *

+ Crossing *

+ Cultural Difference Approach *

+ Deficit Difference Controversy *

+ Definition By Ostentation *

+ Derivational Morpheme *

+ Devoicing *

+ Dialect Discrimination *

+ Dialect Reader *

+ Dialect Rights *

+ Dialectally Diagnostic *

+ Direct Transfer Model *

+ Intrusive *

+ Directive *

+ Discrimination Drill *

+ Divergence Hypothesis *

+ Dominance Approach *

+ Early Adopters *

+ Eavesdropper *

+ Elicitation Frame *

+ Empowering Research *

+ Endangered Dialect *

+ Endonormative Stabilization *

+ Exonormative Stabilization *

+ Expletive *

+ Eye Dialect *

+ Genre *

+ Figurative Extension *

+ First Order Constraint *

+ Floor *

+ Focal Area *

+ Focusing *

+ Formal Standard English *

+ General American English *

+ General Social Significance *

+ Generic He *

+ Glottal Stop *

+ Group Exclusive *

+ Gradient Stratification *

+ Fine Stratification *

+ Intervocalic *

+ Grammaticalization *

+ Gravity Model *

+ Group Preferential *

+ Group Reference *

+ Gullah *

+ Habitual *

+ Historical Present *

+ Homophones *

+ Inflectional Morpheme *

+ Informal Standard English *

+ Linguistic Geography *

+ Inherent Variability *

+ Initiative Style Shift *

+ Language Idealogy *

+ Language Sample *

- Layering *

+ Leveling *

+ Lexicographer *

+ Linguistic Constraint *

+ Linguistic Environment *

+ Linguistic Inferiority Principle *

+ Linguistic Intuitions *

+ Linguistic Marketplace *

+ Linguistic Profiling *

+ Linguistic Variable *

+ Low Back Merger *

+ Meaning Shift *

+ Merger *

+ Metalinguistic Task *

+ Mock Language *

+ Modal *

+ Monitoring *

+ Multiplex Network *

+ Naturalistic Speech *

+ Observer's Paradox *

+ Oppositional Identity *

+ Overhearer *

+ Participle *

+ Perceptual Dialectology *

+ Personal Dative *

+ Phonemic Brackets *

+ Phonetic Brackets *

+ Prescriptive Standard English *

+ Primary Dialect Area *

+ Principle Of Debt Incurred *

+ Principle Of Error Correction *

+ Principle Of Linguistic Gratuity *

+ Pronomial Apposition *

+ Semantic Broadening *

+ Referee Design *

+ Referee Group *

+ Regional Standard English *

+ 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 *

+ Sociolect *

+ Social Variable *

+ Diachronic Linguistics *

+ Southern Vowel Shift *

+ Speaker Design *

+ Speech Accommodation Theory *

+ Spelling Pronunciation *

+ Statistical Hypercorrection *

+ Stopping *

+ Structural Hypercorrection *

+ Substrate Hypothesis *

+ Superstandard English *

+ Swamping *

+ Syllable Timing *

+ Stress Timing *

+ Supra Regional Norm *

+ Symbolic Capital *

+ Taboo Word *

+ Task Interference *

+ Tense *

+ Tertiary Dialect Area *

+ Transitional Zone *

+ Transparency Principle *

+ Bilingual Eduation Program *

+ Caretaker Speech *

+ Central *

+ Comparative Linguistics *

+ Connotative Meaning *

+ Discourse *

+ Downgrading *

+ Early Modern English *

+ Generative Grammar *

+ Global English *

+ Globalization *

+ Great Vowel Shift *

+ Grimm's Law *

+ Ideograph *

+ 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 *

+ Semiotics *

+ Vowel *

+ Speech Act Theory *

+ Bob

+ Computational Linguistics *

+ Black English *

+ Absolute Position *

+ Sharp Stratification *

+ Speakerly Text *

+ Applied Linguistics *

+ Illocutionary Force *

+ Frontal Lobe *

+ Vernacular Principle *

+ Writing *

+ Auditor *

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