different dialect
collocation in Englishmeaningsofdifferentanddialect
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different
adjective
uk/ˈdɪf.ər.ənt/us/ˈdɪf.ɚ.ənt/
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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 ofdifferentanddialectfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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And what of those who speak adifferentdialectfrom that used in the court (or other legal contexts)?
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It is also necessary to recognize thatdifferentdialectgroups may have somewhat different usages for these words.
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He found that performance was better when the talkers and listeners shared a dialect than when the talkers and listeners were fromdifferentdialectregions.
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The ability to accommodate a new accent into one's own speech patterns may also be important for the individual moving into adifferentdialectcommunity.
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Chambers (1992) suggested that people who immigrate todifferentdialectareas will not show similar acquisition patterns of complex features of a new dialect.
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Further analysis of the interaction verified that the largest effects occurred primarily with the groups of older toddlers fromdifferentdialectbackgrounds.
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Local social networks and the social as well as psychological meanings attached todifferentdialect forms can drastically affect the process of diffusion - that is, sociolinguistic diffusion.
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The geographical isolation forced them into numerous small villages and every other province supported adifferentdialect.
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Differentdialectspeakers may have their own clan associations which support their respective forms of opera.
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Each person has adifferentdialectthat reflects aspects of their geographic culture.
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Each region has adifferentdialect, pronunciation style, vocabulary, tone and sometimes, significant differences in grammar.
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If the article is longer, a further contributor using adifferentdialectwill ask for their alterations to be rendered into the original dialect.
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Some people prefer to think of it as a strong accent rather than adifferentdialect.
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It was not only the different dialects that made it difficult to run a school.
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Treatment of social network and linguistic variation has not been carried out in settings where dramatically different dialects are in contact.
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Different dialects thus should be seen as different phonological systems, rather than as variants of some "common" system.
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In a dialect mixture situation, large numbers of variants from the different dialects involved in the mixture are present.
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The listeners were never directly asked to discriminate differences between talkers of different dialects.
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Assume that 125 words are transcribed from two different dialects.
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These differences in perceptual similarity were found mainly in the degree of perceptual distance between the different dialects.
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