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Linguistic enthnocentrism means believing that one’s own cultural speech style is the best and that others are inferior. For example, as a young child, I was sent to speech therapy because I pronounced ‘wash’ as ‘[|warsh]’; my mother grew up in Appalachia and I learned to pronounce ‘wash’ this way from her. Apparently, at that time, in western New York schools, this dialect was considered pathological, and this is an example of linguistic ethnocentrism. The following youtube excerpt from the video //American Tongues// shows a variety of speakers exhibiting linguistic ethnocentrism vis-a-vis several U.S. dialects: __[]__ By: Kathleen McInerney May 28

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Phonological system Lexicon Syntax Semantics Ethnocentrism communication code Phonology synchrony morphology prevarication Broca's Area Wernicke's Area Wernicke's Aphasia Broca's Aphasia Recursion Looking Glass Self ASL grammar linguistic performance linguistic competence Grammar Clever Hans effect Nonverbal communication  Culture shock  pheremone  Sound spectrograph  bird calls  bird sounds  Openness  Arbitrary  stimulus-bound  Displacement