According to Trudgill, Standard English is NOT: (choose more than one answer)

Bell came up with seven criteria in order to help people distinguish between different languages and to think about the language-dialect distinction. Match each criterion with its definition.

Briefly describe what is meant by a ‘dialect continuum’ (e.g. the one that occurs

on the Dutch and German border, or in London varieties of English)?

Briefly explain why language is important to the concept of ethnicity.

Describe the general differences between American English and British English.

Describe

the history and features of African American Vernacular English, mentioning social

attitudes towards this variety.

Compare

some linguistic features of Scottish English and Irish English (phonological, grammatical and lexical).

Summarise the varieties of English spoken in London

describing their phonological, lexical, grammatical and sociological

differences.