释义 |
multidialectal, a.|mʌltɪdaɪəˈlɛktəl| [f. multi- + dialectal a.] Proficient in speaking or comprehending more than two dialects. So multidiaˈlectalism.
1964English Studies XLV. 27 The individual will acquire either a new dialect, or a new accent, or both. This does not mean..that he thereby loses his former variety of English, but simply that he becomes ‘multi-dialectal’ in English. 1965A. H. Marckwardt in Language XLI. 146 Certainly a fourteenth-century Englishman with Chaucer's range of experience would have been multidialectal. 1971Language XLVII. 194 They show..that command of heterogeneous structure is not a matter of multidialectalism or performance, but a necessary part of unilingual linguistic competence. 1975Amer. Speech 1972 XLVII. 290 Kurath accepts multidialectalism as a linguistic fact. |