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mesilect
English
Etymology
From mesi- +? -lect. An etymologically inconsistent concatenation,?occurring perhaps due to the influence of basilect.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?m?s?l?kt/
Noun
mesilect (plural mesilects)
- (rare) Alternative spelling of mesolect
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mesolect
English
Etymology
meso- +? -lect
Noun
mesolect (plural mesolects)
- (sociolinguistics) A variety of speech that is midway between the acrolect and the basilect.
- 1973 Sep, Derek Bickerton, The Nature of a Creole Continuum, in Language 49(3), page 642, [1]
- [...] one characteristic of the mesolect seems to be that it contains, not merely forms from the polar lects, but forms which in function, if not always in phonetic shape, are peculiar to itself.
- Coordinate terms: acrolect, basilect
- 1973 Sep, Derek Bickerton, The Nature of a Creole Continuum, in Language 49(3), page 642, [1]
Derived terms
- mesolectal
Translations
See also
- code-switching
- matrilect
Further reading
- post-creole continuum on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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