Thus, three tasks were administered tobasilect-dominant speakers and two to acrolectdominant ones.From theCambridge English Corpus
Of the spectral and temporal variables studied, differences between acrolect- andbasilect-dominant speakers emerged most clearly in temporal vowel proper ties.From theCambridge English Corpus
At the same time,basilect-dominant speakers show smaller spectral differences between opposing pairs in three subsystems.From theCambridge English Corpus
Picture task data for thebasilect-dominant sample showed a different pattern from word list data.From theCambridge English Corpus
Unlike the acrolect-dominant speakers, nobasilect-dominant speaker produced exclusively monophthongal variants in the word list data.From theCambridge English Corpus
Stative verbs are more often inflected than nonstatives (256), consistent with ben-marking in thebasilect.From theCambridge English Corpus
This is clearest for thebasilect-dominant speakers for both variables.From theCambridge English Corpus
By comparison, male and femalebasilect-dominant speakers showed a great deal more downgliding variants in their conversational data than in their word list data.From theCambridge English Corpus
The reason for this is that these are residual forms of thebasilect(more characteristic of the pre-bas, which has over tones of being "broken").From theCambridge English Corpus
This finding runs counter to the expectation that picture task data would provide responses similar to word list data forbasilect-dominant speakers.From theCambridge English Corpus
Interestingly, the trend noted here (males producing more downgliding forms than females) was not maintained in the picture task for thebasilect-dominant speakers.From theCambridge English Corpus
A "child-language" definition of the notions of acrolect, mesolect, andbasilectmust be different, to be sure, from an adult-language approach to these concepts.From theCambridge English Corpus
This suggests that spectral distinctiveness may not play as prominent a role in vowel quality contrasts forbasilect-dominant speakers as it does for acrolect-dominant ones.From theCambridge English Corpus
The present data suggest that bothbasilect-dominant and acrolect-dominant speakers show stylistic variation.From theCambridge English Corpus
Admittedly, they have described a more idealisedbasilect.From theCambridge English Corpus
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