Inarticulation vs Dialect - What's the difference?
inarticulation | dialect |
(uncountable) The state of being inarticulate; inarticulateness.
* 1976 , Uma Parameswaran, A Study of Representative Indo-English Novelists , ISBN 0706904109, page 81:
(education, US) Any point in the educational system in which the development of the individual is hindered.
* 1937 , Fred Engelhardt and Alfred Victor Overn, Secondary Education: Principles and Practices [http://books.google.com/books?id=DyraAw_ALUsC], page 124:
An inarticulate or underarticulated utterance.
* 2002 , Mad Macz, Internet Underground: The Way of the Hacker [http://books.google.com/books?id=Q5OHEW8_gysC], page 111:
(linguistics) A variety of a language (specifically, often a spoken variety) that is characteristic of a particular area, community or group, often with relatively minor differences in vocabulary, style, spelling and pronunciation.
* A language is a dialect with an army and a navy.
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A dialect of a language perceived as substandard and wrong.
* 1967 , Roger W. Shuy, Discovering American dialects , National Council of Teachers of English, page 1:
* 1975 , Linguistic perspectives on black English , H. Carl, page 219:
* 1994 , H. Nigel Thomas, Spirits in the dark , Heinemann, page 11:
A language.
A variant of a non-standardized programming language.
As nouns the difference between inarticulation and dialect
is that inarticulation is (uncountable) the state of being inarticulate; inarticulateness while dialect is (linguistics) a variety of a language (specifically, often a spoken variety) that is characteristic of a particular area, community or group, often with relatively minor differences in vocabulary, style, spelling and pronunciation.inarticulation
English
Noun
(-)- "The inarticulation of a fond father in an undemonstrative family setting is brought out admirably..."
- "Another traditional source of inarticulation is the requirement of an eighth-grade diploma for entrance to high school."
- "There are some methods of jargonification that became established quite early... These include verb doubling, sound-alike slang, the '-P' convention, overgeneralization, spoken inarticulations , and anthropomorphization."
dialect
English
(wikipedia dialect)Noun
(en noun)- And in addition, many dialects of English make no morphological distinction between Adjectives and Adverbs, and thus use Adjectives in contexts where the standard language requires -ly'' Adverbs: compare
(81) (a) Tex talks ''really quickly'' [Adverb + Adverb]
(b) %Tex talks ''real quick [Adjective + Adjective]
- Many even deny it and say something like this: "No, we don't speak a dialect around here.
[...]
- Well, those children don't speak dialect , not in this school. Maybe in the public schools, but not here.
[...] on the second day, Miss Anderson gave the school a lecture on why it was wrong to speak dialect'. She had ended by saying "Respectable people don't speak ' dialect ."
- Home computers in the 1980s had many incompatible dialects of BASIC.
