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Across
  1. 2. An effort in speech to stress one syllable over adjacent syllables. Specific to a certain region.
  2. 4. Countries where English is a second language fall into this circle...
  3. 6. Classifying Language, giving it a stable definition and official status
  4. 9. Countries where English is spoken as the first language for the majority falls into this circle..
  5. 15. The idea that language is subject to rules and should not change
  6. 17. The process of losing a native or first language on the individual level
  7. 18. Imposing a dominant language on native speakers of another language is called
  8. 20. The dialect of a minority group becomes highly valued and exerts force on the language of the majority, linguists say it has covert prestige.
  9. 22. A common language which can be used by different groups whose native languages are different
  10. 23. The variety of speech that is most remote from the prestige variety, especially in an area where a creole is spoken.
  11. 24. People being able to understand each other despite having different native languages
  12. 26. Teach it as a foreign language in schools useit as their first language have adopted it as their official second language
  13. 29. The end of extinction of a language
  14. 31. When a speaker alternates between two or more languages in the context of a single conversation
Down
  1. 1. How a dominant culture imposes its ways onto others
  2. 3. Countries where English is considered a foreign language are considered part of this circle...
  3. 5. The process in which a community/population shifts to a different language
  4. 7. Language takes on the norms of the local area.
  5. 8. Refers to the tendency for one's culture to pervade thinking, speech, and behavior without one being aware of this pervasion
  6. 10. Individual's view of how he or she fits in and actions taken while in public.
  7. 11. Language becomes stabilized according to the norms of the colonizing country
  8. 12. A grammatically simplified form of a language, used for communication between people not sharing a common language.
  9. 13. A variety of speech that is midway between the acrolect and the basilect
  10. 14. The complete set of all possible words in a language, or a particular subset of words that are grouped by some specific linguistic criteria.
  11. 16. An idea of the self constructed from the beliefs one holds about oneself and the responses of others.
  12. 19. Refers to the usage of informal or everyday language in literature, and are generally geographic in nature.
  13. 21. The variety of speech that is closest to a standard prestige language, especially in an area in which a creole is spoken.
  14. 25. . A word that is borrowed through borrowing and language contact
  15. 27. Speaking only one language (not bilingual, but...?)
  16. 28. An expression or mode of expression that occurs in ordinary speech rather than formal writing.
  17. 30. A particular form of a language which is peculiar to a specific region or social group.