Sociolinguists _______
a. study the structures (phonology and morphology) of a language
b. focus on how people actually speak in any given social situation
c. study language change over time
d. study language families and the relationships between different lexicons
e. study how non-standardized forms of language are related to other languages
ANSWER:
b
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