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| Systematic phonological variation among dialects. |
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| Movement from one language to another or from one variety of a language to another depending on the social or linguistic situation. |
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| Group of speakers who share speech practices because they engage in a common enterprise. |
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| Value that a nonstandard variety of a language carries within a speech community. |
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| Variety of a language, whether regional or social, systematically different from other varieties of the same language in structural or lexical features. |
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| Line that separates an area that uses one lexical item, grammatical construction, or pronunciation from another area on a dialect map. |
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| Value that a variety of a language carries within a speech community. |
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| Study of language in use, especially in terms of variation. |
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| Group of speakers who share linguistic norms and ideologies. |
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