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a form of a language that people speak in a particular part of a country, containing some different words and grammar, etc.:
Meaning of dialect in English
(Definition of dialect from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
dialect | American Dictionary
Examples of dialect
dialect
As reported in all these studies, however, there is a fair amount of variability in speakers' intuitions of syllabification, even when dialect is controlled for.
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Lack of sufficient data on the language of young dialect users has a number of implications.
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Perhaps one should not be too surprised if the role of dialect contact in leading to dialect mixture has been rejected by such writers.
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It is therefore plausible that in other groups in these places the dialect is affected even less by the standard language.
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According to this hierarchy, a request in dialect seems to be the most important factor in predicting the presence of dialect.
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Can we assess the role of dialect differences relative to other dimensions of situated discourse?
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Chapter two addresses the old problem of the definitions of language and dialect.
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This is possibly the most striking part of the dialect, especially at its most informal.
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The third-person-singular present tense in this dialect is characterized by a -zero marker, which is in variation with the standard -s marker.
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It also belongs to a dialect, but whether this should really be labelled 'royalese' as if this were a distinct dialect is doubtful.
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Treatment of social network and linguistic variation has not been carried out in settings where dramatically different dialects are in contact.
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Needless to say, these three requirements must be satisfied for the dialect where auxiliary do arose.
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Another result has been the increase of multi-voicedness in market discourse - a greater number of accents, dialects, and ethnic minority languages.
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Different dialects thus should be seen as different phonological systems, rather than as variants of some "common" system.
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In a dialect mixture situation, large numbers of variants from the different dialects involved in the mixture are present.
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Collocations with dialect
dialect
These are words often used in combination with dialect.
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dialect region
A second group learned to categorise three talkers from each dialect region.
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different dialect
And what of those who speak a different dialect from that used in the court (or other legal contexts)?
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local dialect
Most of the recordings, however, have been undertaken by students born in the region and competent in the local dialect.
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Translations of dialect
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बोलीभाषा…
方言, 方言（ほうげん）…
lehçe…
dialecte [masculine], dialecte…
dialecte…
dialect…
ஒரு நாட்டின் ஒரு குறிப்பிட்ட பகுதியில் மக்கள் பேசும் மொழியின் ஒரு வடிவம், சில வேறுபட்ட சொற்கள் மற்றும் இலக்கணம் போன்றவை.…
उपभाषा…
બોલી…
dialekt…
dialekt…
loghat…
der Dialekt…
dialekt [masculine], dialekt, målføre…
بولی, مقامی لب و لہجہ…
діалект, говір…
диалект…
మాండలికం…
لَهْجة…
উপভাষা, আঞ্চলিক উপভাষা…
nářečí…
dialek…
ภาษาถิ่น…
thổ ngữ…
dialekt, gwara…
방언, 사투리…
dialetto…
