transition area

noun Linguistics.

(in dialect geography) an area whose dialect has been influenced by the dialect of one or more neighboring focal areas. Compare focal area, relic area.

Also called graded area.

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an expression exhibiting constructional homonymity or having two or more structural descriptions

the spoken form a word has when produced in isolation, such as for illustration, as distinguished from the form it would have when produced in the normal stream of speech

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