Types of American Accents
African-American Vernacular English has influenced the development of other dialects of English. The AAVE accent, New York accent, and Spanish-language accents have together yielded the sound of New York Latino English, some of whose speakers use an accent indistinguishable from an AAVE one.
By addressing cognitive skills, a speech pathologist can help you improve household management (paying bills, taking medication, cooking, etc.), facilitate return to work (organizing projects, meeting client, using a computer, etc.) and increase independence in the community (grocery shopping, using public transportation, visiting with friends, etc.).
American English is the form of English used in the United States. It includes all English dialects used within the United States of America. British English is the form of English used in the United Kingdom.
Another grammar difference between American and British English relates to auxiliary verbs. Auxiliary verbs, also known as helping verbs, are verbs that help form a grammatical function. They “help” the main verb by adding information about time, modality and voice.
A descriptive grammar is built up by analyzing how speakers use a language, and deducing the rules they are following. A prescriptive grammar is a set of explicit rules for using language that are taught, or enforced, so that people will use the language in a particular way. Typically the rules are handed down from generation to generation.
Generative grammar is a set of rules that indicates the structure and interpretation of sentences which native speakers accept as belonging to the language. Generative grammar is a set of rules that indicates the structure and interpretation of sentences which native speakers accept as belonging to the language.
Lexical-functional grammar, usually referred to as LFG, is a theoretical approach to syntax and related components of grammar originally developed in the late 1970s by Joan Bresnan and Ronald Kaplan. Conceived within the general program of generative linguistics, LFG differs from other such approaches in several respects.
Lexicogrammar is a term used in systemic functional linguistics (SFL) to emphasize the interdependence of--and continuity between--vocabulary and syntax . The term lexicogrammar (literally, lexicon plus grammar) was introduced by linguist M.A.K. Halliday. Adjective: lexicogrammatical.