"Dialectology (from Greek διάλεκτος, dialektos, "talk, dialect"; and -λογία, -logia) is the scientific study of linguistic dialect, a sub-field of sociolinguistics."
The study of dialects and their classification and characteristics.
Language Variation: The study of differences in language use across regions, social groups, and time.
Language Change: The study of how language evolves over time, and how dialects come into existence.
Sociolinguistics: The study of the relationship between language and society, including how language use reflects social identity.
Phonetics and Phonology: The study of speech sounds, their physical properties, and how they are organized in language.
Morphology and Syntax: The study of how words are formed and how they combine to create sentences.
Lexicography: The study of how words are used in different dialects and how they are documented in dictionaries.
Historical Linguistics: The study of how languages change over time.
Applied Linguistics: The study of how linguistics research can be applied in education, language policy, and other areas.
Language Typology: The study of how different languages are structured and how they vary across the world.
Computational Linguistics: The study of how computers can be used to analyze and model language data.
Geographic Dialectology: This type of dialectology focuses on studying the differences in speech patterns among certain geographic regions.
Social Dialectology: Social dialectology focuses on the correlation between language and social class, race, age, and gender.
Historical Dialectology: This type of dialectology examines the changes in language over time.
Comparative Dialectology: Comparative dialectology mainly involves the study of the similarities and differences between two or more dialects or languages.
Contact Dialectology: This type of dialectology studies the effects of linguistic contact (such as trade and immigration) on the development of dialects.
Psycholinguistic Dialectology: Psycholinguistic dialectology investigates how people from different dialectal backgrounds perceive and process language.
Computational Dialectology: This type of dialectology uses computational methods to study complex dialect data.
Anthropological Dialectology: Anthropological dialectology studies dialects by analyzing cultural practices, beliefs, and values that influence dialect use.
Urban Dialectology: This type of dialectology studies the variations in speech patterns among city dwellers.
Perceptual Dialectology: This type of dialectology studies public attitudes and perceptions towards various dialects.
"It is a sub-field of sociolinguistics."
"It studies variations in language based primarily on geographic distribution and their associated features."
"Dialectologists are ultimately concerned with grammatical, lexical and phonological features that correspond to regional areas."
"They usually deal not only with populations that have lived in certain areas for generations, but also with migrant groups that bring their languages to new areas (see language contact)."
"Commonly studied concepts in dialectology include the problem of mutual intelligibility in defining languages and dialects; situations of diglossia, where two dialects are used for different functions; dialect continua including a number of dialects of varying intelligibility; and pluricentrism, where a single language has two or more standard varieties."
"Hans Kurath and William Labov are among the most prominent researchers in this field."
"It studies variations in language based primarily on geographic distribution and their associated features."
"Dialectologists are ultimately concerned with grammatical, lexical and phonological features."
"They deal with populations that have lived in certain areas for generations and migrant groups that bring their languages to new areas."
"The problem of mutual intelligibility in defining languages and dialects."
"Situations of diglossia, where two dialects are used for different functions."
"Dialect continua including a number of dialects of varying intelligibility."
"Pluricentrism, where a single language has two or more standard varieties."
"Dialectologists study language contact between migrant groups and the local populations."
"Dialectologists are ultimately concerned with grammatical, lexical and phonological features."
"The problem of mutual intelligibility in defining languages and dialects."
"Grammatical, lexical, and phonological features corresponding to regional areas."
"Dialectology is a sub-field of sociolinguistics."
"Dialectology studies variations in language based primarily on geographic distribution and their associated features."