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acrolect Linguistics.|ˈækrəlɛkt, ˈækrəʊ-|
[f. acro- + -lect.]
In a post-creole community, the social dialect most closely resembling the standard language; also, in extended use: the most prestigious or ‘highest’ social dialect of any language. Cf. basilect, mesolect.
1965, etc. [see -lect]. 1977Language LIII. 330 Speakers in a post-creole community are triply pressured: to avoid the basilect, to acquire the acrolect, and to vary the mesolect. 1978Archivum Linguisticum IX. 44 Women are far from being initiators of linguistic change in the direction of the acrolect. 1983Amer. Speech LVIII. 49 The acrolect, West Indian standard English, is essential primarily for external relations.
Hence acroˈlectal a.
1977Language LIII. 334 There is very little discussion on Providence Island about acrolectal talk, but there is a tremendous amount of speculation about the basilect. 1980English World-Wide I. i. 81 The use of acrolectal varieties is not denied in an appropriate environment. 1983Amer. Speech LVIII. 272 Nassauvian for a native Bahamian is considered acrolectal in contrast to the basilectal Nassau man. |