Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Using two dialects of the same language.
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- adjective using or
capable of using twodialects of alanguage
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Examples
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Many teenagers are thoroughly bidialectal, switching easily from the version of Gaeltacht Irish they have from their parents to the new urban varieties in use among their peers.
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Humans can be bidialectal as easily as bilingual and can speak standard as well as Black English (which Obama does, and as Reid acknowledged); the dialect is now felt as a cultural hallmark, albeit often unconsciously; and so on.
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Humans can be bidialectal as easily as bilingual and can speak standard as well as Black English (which Obama does, and as Reid acknowledged); the dialect is now felt as a cultural hallmark, albeit often unconsciously; and so on.
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