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Part 1: The Development of Language  1. The Beginnings of Language Development  2. Dialogue and Language Development  Part 2: Linguistic Diversity and the Speech Community  3. Language and Regional Variation: Accent and Dialect  4. Language and Ethnic Identity: British Black English  5. Language and Subcultures: Anti-Language  6. Language and Situation: Register  7. Language and Social Class: Restricted and Elaborated Speech Variants  8. Language and Gender  9. Linguistic Diversity and the Speech Community