acrolect

[ak-ruh-lekt]

ac·ro·lect

[ak-ruh-lekt]
noun Linguistics.
the variety of language in a creole continuum that approximates most closely the standard variety of a major international language, as the English spoken in Guyana or Jamaica.
Compare basilect, mesolect.


Origin:
1960–65; acro- + (dia)lect

ac·ro·lec·tal, adjective
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Acrolect is always a great word to know.
So is allomorph. Does it mean:
one of the alternate contextually determined phonological shapes of a morpheme; ox, oxen
the cultural correlate, reference, or denotation of an expression separate from linguistic content
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