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   idiolect

   /ˈɪdɪəlɛkt/

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   • 1. the speech habits peculiar to a particular person: "in his strange idiolect, he preferred to call angels ‘angelicals’"

   Word Origin 1940s: from idio- ‘own, personal’ + -lect as in dialect.

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   What is idiolect in linguistics?

   • The concept of idiolect refers to a very specific phenomenon—the speech variety, or linguistic system, used by a particular individual. All those idiolects that have enough in common to appear at least superficially alike belong to a dialect. The term dialect, then, is an abstraction.

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   What is the difference between dialect and idiolect?

   • Idiolect is an individual's unique use of language, including speech. This unique usage encompasses vocabulary, grammar, and pronunciation. This differs from a dialect, a common set of linguistic characteristics shared among a group of people.

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   Are idiolects always correct?

   • An idiolect is a vector in this n-space. They are not always correct (otherwise language would never change, nor could there be any linguistic variation or idiolects). For the purposes of the scientific study of language, all languages, all dialects, all idiolects, are of equal interest.

   IDIOLECT | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary

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   Do idiolects exist?

   • Some hold that idiolects in this sense do not exist or that the notion is useless or incoherent, but are nonetheless happy to use the word “idiolect” to describe a person’s partial grasp of, or their pattern of deviance from, a language that is irreducibly social in nature. The substantial debate, here, is not over how to define a word.

   Idiolects - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

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3. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › IdiolectIdiolect - Wikipedia

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   Idiolect is an individual's unique use of language, including speech, vocabulary, grammar and pronunciation. Learn how linguists study idiolects, how forensic linguists use them to identify authors, and how corpora help detect idiolect features.

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   Jul 3, 2019 · An idiolect is the unique linguistic pattern of an individual, influenced by vocabulary, pronunciation, and style. Learn how idiolects differ from dialects and accents, and see examples of personal slang and variation.

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6. dictionary.cambridge.org › dictionary › englishIDIOLECT | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary

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   Idiolect is the form of a language that a particular person speaks, with their own personal features and variations. Learn more about idiolect from the Cambridge Dictionary, with definitions, examples, pronunciation and translations.

7. www.merriam-webster.com › dictionary › idiolectIdiolect Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster

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   Idiolect is the language or speech pattern of one individual at a particular period of life. Learn the etymology, examples, and synonyms of idiolect from Merriam-Webster dictionary.

8. www.vocabulary.com › dictionary › idiolectIdiolect - Definition, Meaning & Synonyms - Vocabulary.com

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   An idiolect is a person’s specific, unique way of speaking. Everyone has their very own idiolect that differs from the way other people talk. A dialect is a version of a language spoken by a group of people.

9. plato.stanford.edu › entries › idiolectsIdiolects - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

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   Nov 15, 2004 · Idiolects. For the purposes of this entry an idiolect is a language the linguistic (i. e. syntactic, phonological, referential, etc.) properties of which can be exhaustively specified in terms of the intrinsic properties of some single individual, the person whose idiolect it is.

10. www.oxfordbibliographies.com › abstract › documentIdiolect - Linguistics - Oxford Bibliographies

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    Nov 29, 2018 · Idiolect is an individual's unique variety and/or use of language, influenced by personal, social, and linguistic factors. Learn about the origins, definitions, and research of the concept of idiolect in linguistics.