local dialect
collocation in Englishmeaningsoflocalanddialect
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local
adjective
uk/ˈləʊ.kəl/us/ˈloʊ.kəl/
from, existing in, serving, or responsible for a small area, especially of ...
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dialect
noun[C or U]
uk/ˈdaɪ.ə.lekt/us/ˈdaɪ.ə.lekt/
a form of a language that people speak in a particular part of a country, containing some different words and ...
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(Definition oflocalanddialectfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesoflocal dialect
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Most of the recordings, however, have been undertaken by students born in the region and competent in thelocaldialect.
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There are 110 utterances in the entire corpus that contain a distal feature and nolocaldialectelements.
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Language variation is mainly considered here in terms of whether utterances containlocaldialectfeatures or not.
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What constitutes a person as a speaker of thelocaldialectand as a member of the community?
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It is obviously then the result of the same kind of automatic and0or universal coordinatory aspect of human behavior which leads tolocaldialectmaintenance.
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This comment hints that speakers are able to differentiate thelocaldialectfrom the standard one according to the (non-) application of the palatalization rule.
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Overall, any production that did not conform to the adult spoken version of thelocaldialectwas coded as incorrect.
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Localdialectsocieties sometimes print lists of them, and dialect surveys try to keep records of them.
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In addition,localdialectexperience does not necessarily increase speakers' ability to recognize their own productive norms.
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It presents apparent time evidence suggesting that, while certain local features are giving way to competing standard forms, other emblematic features of thelocaldialectare not undergoing change.
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It is in the uniqueness oflocaldialecterosion that we can look for clues as to its inception as well as to the social factors that affect it.
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This research seems to suggest thatlocaldialectexperience did play a role in how participants perceived the vowel variants on a number of social dimensions.
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It is a pity that some authors in this volume still concentrate their research on traditional dialect grammars and other (written) descriptions of verylocaldialectvarieties (in the past).
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In order to prevent accommodation to the standard as far as possible, the example sentences were uttered by the fieldworker in thelocaldialect, rather than in the standard.
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I was amazed when a policeman came up to me and addressed me in thelocaldialect.
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Hansard archive
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I suppose one cannot expect to have people proficient in every language, though those who are gifted certainly pick up thelocaldialectwhen they get to these posts.
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Hansard archive
Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
Carinthian dialect features can still be found in thelocaldialect.
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