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dialectological

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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Of or pertaining to dialectology: as, a dialectological introduction.

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Examples

  • In popular dialectological literature it is often given little acknowledgement as a distinct and homogeneous variety, save for a paragraph or two dedicated to oddities of Canadian spelling and the fading use of British-sounding lexical items like chesterfield, serviette, and zed.

    languagehat.com: VARIETIES OF ENGLISH. 2005

  • I have specialized in historical linguistics and am researching the phenomenon of palatalization in Northwestern Germanic (Dutch, Frisian, German, English) both from a diachronic and dialectological (synchronic) perspective.

    Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2008

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