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focal area

noun Linguistics.

(in dialect geography) an area whose dialect has exerted influence on the dialects of surrounding areas, as reflected in a set of isoglosses more or less concentrically surrounding it.

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one of the alternate contextually determined phonological shapes of a morpheme; ox, oxen

conforming to the rules of a language

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