dialect region
collocation in Englishmeaningsofdialectandregion
These words are often used together. Click on the links below to explore the meanings. Or,see other collocations withdialect.
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 ...
See more atdialect
region
noun[C]
uk/ˈriː.dʒən/us/ˈriː.dʒən/
a particular area or part of the world, or any of the large official areas into which a country ...
See more atregion
(Definition ofdialectandregionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofdialect region
These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
A second group learned to categorise three talkers from eachdialectregion.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Each talker was a non-mobile resident of his or herdialectregionwith both parents also raised in the same region.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Details about the residential history of the talkers and their parents were obtained from each talker and only lifetime residents of eachdialectregionwere included in the corpus.
From theCambridge English Corpus
He found that performance was better when the talkers and listeners shared a dialect than when the talkers and listeners were from different dialect regions.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Comparisons based on residency were therefore not made for these two dialect regions.
From theCambridge English Corpus
In addition, mobile listeners tend to be more accurate overall and show greater discrimination between contiguous dialect regions.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Perhaps the grouped data is masking individual differences in the dialect regions.
From theCambridge English Corpus
A more detailed analysis of the performance by the mobile listeners with respect to which dialect regions they had lived in revealed more interesting results.
From theCambridge English Corpus
The similarity parameters indicate the degree of perceptual similarity between any two dialect regions.
From theCambridge English Corpus
The classification we presented of dialect regions suggests that national borders are of small relevance.
From theCambridge English Corpus
This result was robust across all of the dialect regions.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Of the remaining 12 mobile listeners, eight had lived in two other dialect regions and four had lived in three or more other dialect regions.
From theCambridge English Corpus
That is, the perceptual dissimilarity of any two dialect regions is represented by the sum of the lengths of the least number of vertical branches required to connect them.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Sixth, dialect regions or clusters of speech localities were identified; the isoglosses marked regions where the variable sociolinguistic behavior of speakers was similar.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Five distinct dialect regions have been identified.
From
Wikipedia
These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
Want to learn more?
Go to the definition ofdialect
Go to the definition ofregion
See other collocations withdialect