Sentence examples for the first dialect from inspiring English sources
The first dialect dictionaries and grammars were most often written by scholars describing the dialect of their birthplace or by fieldworkers whose main method of investigation was free conversation with speakers of the dialect, usually older persons and, preferably, those who showed the least degree of literacy and who had travelled as little as possible.
IN THIS especially bleak midwinter, what better excuse to have a drink and a knees-up than commemorating the birth of Robert Burns, the Scottish ploughman whose demotic verse was perhaps the first dialect version of English to achieve world literary and popular acclaim?
We describe our effort to create the first Multi-Dialect Arabic Sentiment Twitter Dataset (MD-ArSenTD) that is composed of tweets collected from 12 Arab countries, annotated for sentiment and dialect.
The Teochews form the second-largest dialect group among Chinese Singaporeans, and many families can trace their family ancestry to immigrants who were Kangchu or coolies in these plantations.
A second dialect is spoken in the region of Uummannaq and the Disko Bay.
A third dialect, Attu, now extinct in Alaska, survives on Bering Island (one of the Komandor Islands) in a creolized form that incorporates Russian verbal inflections.
In my own work on Aboriginal English speaking children learning Australian English as their second dialect, I noticed that these learners often engaged in learning activities that were culturally constructed.
There was a lot to learn in the first months: the guerrillas' dialect; the command structure and deluded logic of the Farc; the soldiers' aliases, many of them from TV shows, so that a short, stout guard was referred to as Betty, after Ugly Betty.
It would be the first time the Chiricahua dialect would be spoken by the actors who portrayed them.
If they pronounced the first syllable in the Ephraimic dialect, "sib," instead of in the Gilead dialect, "shib," they were killed.
In some dialects the first consonant in almost any consonant cluster becomes [h].
