multidialectal
adjective
languagespecialized(alsomulti-dialectal)uk/ˌmʌl.ti.daɪ.əˈlek.təl/us/ˌmʌl.ti.daɪ.əˈlek.təl//ˌmʌl.taɪ.daɪ.əˈlek.təl/using more than onedialect(= aformof alanguagethatpeoplespeakin aparticulararea):
a multi-dialectalenvironment
It isdifficultfornewcomerstoadaptto themultilingualand multidialectalnatureof USsociety.
- Englishas aspokenlingua franca will be a multidialectal one.
- Thissuggeststhat multi-dialectalinputresultsinrelaxedandbroadenedphoneticcategories.
- Multidialectalcompetenceiskeytoallowingyou tounderstandandswitchbetweendiversevarietiesofEnglish.
- Multidialectalinfantshearmultipledialectsof asinglenativelanguageif one or both oftheirparentsspeakwith adialectthatdiffersfrom thesurroundinglocality.
Ways of speaking
- accented
- accentuation
- bray
- cacoepy
- cut glass
- dialectal
- drawl
- elocution
- enunciate
- flap
- fluent
- jawbreaker
- lilt
- pronunciation
- prosodic
- prosody
- signer
- sociolect
- synecdoche
- toned