question archive 1) What ethnic groups can you think of whose use of English may be marked as distinctive? a
1) What ethnic groups can you think of whose use of English may be marked as distinctive? a
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1) What ethnic groups can you think of whose use of English may be marked as distinctive?
a. Choose one of these groups and try to determine two or three phonological and lexical features that distinguish the speech of this group.
b. Are there any syntactic features you can think of that mark this group as distinctive?
c. Once you have determined these linguistic factors, try to think of a social or historical explanation that might help us to determine why these linguistic features are particular to this group.
