Your question is not as easy as you may think because
dialect has to do with vocabularly, grammar and pronunciation. Also, there are different
kinds of dialect. Some dialects are regional, and these dialects have to do with the way
language is pronounced as well as the different vocabulary terms from region to region.
However, dialect can ALSO refer to one's educational level or social-economic level. In
this case, numbers #3 and #4 could be true. However, in the strictest definition of
dialect, I would have to choose #2 if I could ONLY choose one. Dialect can be very
complicated, so #1 is not true, and #3 and #4 seem to be the same thing to me, so I am
going with #2.
The people in the southern United States
speak a regional dialect that is accented in a much different way than those that live
in the northern United States. In fact, people from these regions often cannot
understand each other if the pronunciation is especially pronounced, or "thick" as we
say. A person with a "thick" Texas accent, for example, often cannot be understood by
someone from the Bronx, New York, with a "thick" Bronx accent. But dialect is more than
just accent. The vocabulary is different as well and based on various elements that are
different in the culture, geography and history of the South and the
North.
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