week 3

Question 1

dialect geography

Answer 1

how people from different areas speak

Question 2

Shibboleth

Answer 2

OED
A word or sound which a person is unable to pronounce correctly; a word used as a test for detecting foreigners, or persons from another district, by their pronunciation.

Question 3

how do we collect linguistic data

Answer 3

• surveys
• interviews
• get people to read
  passages
• record peoples natural speech (with consent)

Question 4

observers paradox

Answer 4

when someone becomes aware that they’re being studied they change their behaviour

Question 5

what was the first dialect study?

Answer 5

Georg Wenker 1876

• First ever dialect survey,
• postal
• sent sentences in Standard German to schoolmasters with a request to return the list transcribed in the local dialect
• Dialect maps in Sprachatlas des Deutschen Reichs