substrate
- noun
- /ˈsʌbˌstreɪt/
- Specialized
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sustrato
- These expressions of vernacular art not only promote community pride, cooperation, and stability but also signal the presence of a particular ethnic substrate within the larger urban center (Ford and Griffin 1981; Hayden 1997).
Is it from the substrate languages like the Gaulish?
- Is it from the substrate languages like the Gaulish?
Examples
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Perhaps Theravada Buddhism developed its comparably strong identity because it was working over a fairly regularized Hindu substrate.
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As Richard Lewontin pointed out, his work pretty much gave Darwin its essential substrate which had been lacking.
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Is it from the substrate languages like the Gaulish?
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Then you understand better what the proverb means through the African substrate or ancestry.
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The ground, then, is ungrounded; as Iain Hamilton Grant puts it, "there is no 'primal layer of the world,' no 'ultimate substrate' or substance on which everything ultimately rests."
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As Cathy Caruth writes, accidental survival is the psychic substrate of the traumatic experience because, in its randomness, it "resists simple comprehension."
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This journal takes into account the transhistorical substrates that subsume behavioral, affective, and cognitive functioning of persons of African descent, as well as those who educate or clinically serve this population.
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When the oral tale derives from a culture that has been overwhelmed, such as West Africa under French political hegemony, a member of the substrate who wishes partially to preserve it will seek to justify to members of the dominant culture the enduring importance of the surviving remnants of the submerged culture.
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The influence of the indigenous substrate can be seen in the local dialect of the region.
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Scholars often study how a substrate language affects the grammar of the dominant tongue.
Synonyms
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A language spoken by the first people of a place
An older local language that leaves words or sounds in a newer language
How Influential
- Specialized
- Specialized
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Substrate comes from the Latin parts sub- 'under' and stratum 'layer', so it can mean something 'under' a new thing. In language a substrate is the older local language that lies under a new language and leaves some words or sounds behind.