Definition of dialectology in English:
dialectology
noun ˌdʌɪəlɛkˈtɒlədʒiˌdaɪəlɛkˈtɑlədʒi
mass nounThe branch of linguistics concerned with the study of dialects.
Example sentencesExamples
- Deviations occur increasingly from the 16th cent., but few fully localized texts, showing sufficient diagnostic features for a more detailed dialectology, occur before the 18th.
- In generative dialectology, the investigator holds that the language exists within the speaker as a competence which is never fully realized in performance.
- Worse, this stuff may give readers the mistaken impression that Geoff believes that the G&M media bias paper is somehow about the ideology of Portuguese dialectology.
- In this respect the study of dialects or dialectology has to do with boundaries, which often coincide with geographical features such as rivers and mountains.
- Regarding the second principle, the lessons of historical linguistics and dialectology provide the strongest arguments available for the linguistic validity of U.S. Spanish.
Derivatives
adjective ˌdʌɪəlɛktəˈlɒdʒɪk(ə)l
Roberts makes a rather obvious dialectological point, but it's one that is frequently lost on self-appointed guardians of good ‘grammar’.
Example sentencesExamples
- The experts instructed those who wanted to participate in expeditions in methods of collection of dialectological materials and informants’ data as well as dialectologist's ethics.
- The influence of the old dialects can also still be discerned in regional variants of CSMG; I may attempt to use these current variants to support my dialectological research.
- This makes no dialectological or sociolinguistic sense, and how far either choice actually reflected the true patterning even for a given unsystematic sample of judges would obviously depend entirely on where and how the sample was drawn.
- All tapes were recorded between 1955 and 1965 in the course of regular dialectological expeditions.
noun ˌdʌɪəlɛkˈtɒlədʒɪstˌdaɪəlɛkˈtɑlədʒəst
The son of a Yorkshire dialectologist and university French teacher, Halliday's contribution to the field of linguistics spans more than half a century.
Example sentencesExamples
- Here he made contact with German dialectologists and this later led to a lifetime of friendly collaboration on various projects.
- Peter Trudgill, a leading British sociolinguist and dialectologist now based at the University of Fribourg in Switzerland, visits the Department annually and works on the ONZE data for a month.
- As a result of this study, philologists and dialectologists generally regard a dialect as a historical subtype of a language and a language as the aggregate of the features of its dialects.
- Traditional dialectologists believed that isolation led to linguistic diversity, while mixing of populations created uniformity.
Definition of dialectology in US English:
dialectology
nounˌdīəlekˈtäləjēˌdaɪəlɛkˈtɑlədʒi
The branch of linguistics concerned with the study of dialects.
Example sentencesExamples
- In generative dialectology, the investigator holds that the language exists within the speaker as a competence which is never fully realized in performance.
- In this respect the study of dialects or dialectology has to do with boundaries, which often coincide with geographical features such as rivers and mountains.
- Worse, this stuff may give readers the mistaken impression that Geoff believes that the G&M media bias paper is somehow about the ideology of Portuguese dialectology.
- Deviations occur increasingly from the 16th cent., but few fully localized texts, showing sufficient diagnostic features for a more detailed dialectology, occur before the 18th.
- Regarding the second principle, the lessons of historical linguistics and dialectology provide the strongest arguments available for the linguistic validity of U.S. Spanish.