Introduction to Linguistics - Assignment 12

James Madison University

[This assignment is REQUIRED, but it will be marked only as an acceptable or unacceptable effort.]

  1. List at least one word or expression from your own dialect that you know is not used by all American English speakers.
  2. List at least one word or expression that you know some English speakers use but that you don't use.
  3. Do exercise 4 from Chapter 7, but just for any one new-ish slang word).
  4. Also do exercise 7 (just a-c).
  5. And, also do exercise 8 (just a,b, and d).



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