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acrolect
[
ak
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uh
-lekt
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ac·ro·lect
/
ˈæk
rəˌlɛkt
/
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-r
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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
Related forms
ac·ro·lec·tal,
adjective
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Acrolect
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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
a theory of phonology that uses a set of rules to derive phonetic representations from abstract underlying forms
a mark (?) used as a diacritic over a vowel, as ?, ?, ?, to indicate a vowel sound different from that of the letter without the diacritic
descended from the same language or form
the patterns of word formation in a particular language, including inflection, derivation, and composition
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