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Social Class Differences between Two Speakers Speaker A Speaker B I done it yesterday. I did it yesterday. He ain’t got it. He hasn’t got it. It was her what said it. It was her that said it. Regional and Caste Differences in Kanarese1 SOCIAL: Brahmin2 non-Brahmin REGION: Dharwar3 Bangalore3 Dharwar Bangalore it is ?d? ide ayti ayti inside -olage -alli -`ga -`ga inf. affix -likke -8k -`k -`k part. affix -8 -8 -` -` sit k[t- k[t- kunt- kunt- reflexive k8 k8 kont kont- 1 A Dravidian language of south India. 2 Highest caste. 3 These two cities are 250 miles apart. What Sociolinguistics Can and Cannot Tell You Viewed against the background of the speech community as a whole, the variation was not random but determined by extra-linguistic factors in a quite predictable way. That is, you could not predict on any one occasion whether individuals would say cah or car, but it could be shown that, if speakers were of a certain social class, age, and sex, they would use one or other variant approximately x per cent of the time, on average, in a given situation. Verbs without –s for the Third Person Singular Present Form Norwich Detroit MMC 0% UMC 1% LMC 2 LMC 10 UWC 70 UWC 57 MWC 87 LWC 71 LWC 97 She like him very much. He don’t know a lot, do he? It go ever so fast. Variations on Expressing Negative I can eat anything. I cant eat anything. I can eat nothing. I cant eat nothing. Non-RP Forms for Three Consonants in Norwich Form used -n ? NOTHING Instead of -? t h- MMC 31% 41% 6% LMC 42 62 14 UWC 87 89 40 MWC 95 92 59 LWC 100 94 61 Goals of Sociolinguistic Research 1. It makes explicit what people may implicitly use to identify a persons social status by the way the person talks. 2. It tells us someth