LINGUISTIC SIMILARITIES AND DIFFERENCES BETWEEN STANDARD ENGLISH AND AMERICAN ENGLISH
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The main tasks of dialectology are to describe the structural variants of a language and to determine the boundaries between dialect regions or social stratifications. Like any language, English has internal variations, it consists of many variants and, in a certain sense, is the sum of these variants. As the English language is becoming more and more widespread around the world, its dialects are also increasing, and this, in turn, requires their study. Before we examine the similarities and differences between Standard English and the American variant, it will help to provide a coherent coverage of this topic by providing scientific theories and concepts about them.
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