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Perceptual Dialectology

• Definition: The study of how non-linguists classify different dialects, as well as their beliefs about and attitudes toward different dialects and their speakers. Also called folk dialectology.

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