dialectal
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- adjective
- /ˌdaɪəˈlɛktəl/
- Regardless of the reported ethnicity of participants, it is possible that dialectal influences may have existed for individual children and could have affected the outcome measures of grammatical accuracy.
- dialectal features
- dialectal influences
- dialectal forms
Examples
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The present study corroborates the theory that the use of the subjunctive with no se si is dialectal.
Academic text (1995) -
Crawford records 5 occurrences of the dialectal "a" in two of Marlowe's plays and 4 in one of Jonson's, none in Kyd's.
Academic text (2016) -
In one play in nine, the dialectal "a" is to be found.
Academic text (2016) -
Both use P as the primary text and level the dialectal features.
Academic text (1994) -
Although dialectal variations are to be expected within each language, we focus on general representations of each language's phonetic inventories.
Academic text (2014) -
Dawson lists the various concordances and plays consulted to find and tabulate the dialectal "a" in a sample of non-Shakespearean plays.
Academic text (2016) -
Hispano-medievalists, frustrated by the conspicuous lack of a Castilian text free of dialectal features, seek to level the variants to produce a Castilian archetype.
Academic text (1994) -
The linguist studied the dialectal differences between the two regions to understand their unique expressions.
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In his presentation, he highlighted several dialectal words that differ significantly from the standard language.
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Her poetry reflects dialectal influences that capture the essence of her hometown's speech.
How Dialectal
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word dialectal comes from dialect, a word that originally meant 'speech' or 'talk' and is related to dialogue. The ending -al means 'related to', so dialectal means 'related to a regional way of speaking', which is why we use it for non-standard or local forms of a language.