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.

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Sociolinguists focus on how people actually speak in any given social situation, including factors such as dialect, register, and language variation, and how these are related to social identity, power relations, and cultural norms. While they may also study language change and language families, the primary focus of sociolinguistics is on the social aspects of language use.