Perceptual dialectology is the scientific study of how ordinary individuals perceive variation in language—where they believe it exists, where they believe it comes from, how they believe it functions, and how they socially evaluate it.
Perceptual dialectology differs from standard dialectology in that it is concerned not with formal linguistic understandings but rather with how non-linguists perceive various accents, vocabulary usages, grammatical structures, etc. (which may or may not correlate with scientific linguistic findings). Because it focuses on nonlinguists' views of linguistic concepts, perceptual dialectology is considered a subset of the study of folk linguistics, as well as part of the general field of sociolinguistics.
Common topics in the study of perceptual dialectology include the comparison of folk perceptions of dialect boundaries with traditional linguistic definitions, the examination of what factors influence folk perceptions of variation, and what social characteristics individuals attribute to various dialects.
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dialects, the lisping sibilant [s̟] (sometimes indicated in Spanish dialectology as ⟨s̄⟩) is the most common pronunciation of the letters s and z, as...
and ⟨ ⟩, see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters. In Spanish dialectology, the realization of coronal fricatives is one of the most prominent features...
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