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Language Variation

Across
Creole historically and developmentally between its acrolectal and basilectal stages
Study of language in use, especially in terms of variation
Study of variation in a particular language or language family
Systematic phonological variation among dialects
Creole strongly marked against its lexifier language, that is, one with extensive creole features
Down
Variety of a language, whether regional or social, systematically different from other varieties of the same language in structural (i.e., morphological, syntactic) or lexical features
Creole that closely resembles its lexifier language, that is, exhibits relatively few creole features
Movement from one language to another (for instance, from Spanish to English) or from one variety of a language to another (for instance, from African American English to Standard English) depending on the social or linguistic situation
Line that separates an area that use one lexical item, grammatical construction, or pronunciation from another area on a dialect map
Prestige that a nonstandard variety of a language carries within a speech community