Which one of the following statements about dialect is true?

A. People who speak dialects learn their language by imitating members of their speech community, not by failing to mimic speakers of the standard variety.
B. Only varieties of a language spoken by socially disfavored groups are dialects.
C. Dialects inherently carry negative social connotations.
D. A dialect is something that someone else speaks.

Dialects refer to ways of speaking that are subdivisions of a language, not inferior forms. Everyone speaks a dialect, including the so-called 'standard dialect,' which is not linguistically superior. John McWhorter explains that dialects form a continuum of language variation geographically distributed, with no inherent hierarchy among them.

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