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Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A. dialectologer.

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  • noun linguistics A person who studies regional differences in speech sounds.

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Examples

  • The research is by perceptual dialectologist Dennis Preston.

    language thoughts 2008

  • But, what you might call the "strong" versions of Polish dialects have mostly died out after WWII leaving "lite" versions (mainstream Polish with some regional features still hanging on) in their place and these continue to give way to standard Polish (I think being a modern Polish dialectologist is the linguistic equivalent of the Maytag Repairman).

    languagehat.com: SILESIANS. 2005

  • Unless, of course, some skilled dialectologist in the KGB concocted the file in order to place Hanssen in our hands as a grand dangle, but that is what spookspeak calls sickthink .

    The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time William Safire 2004

  • Unless, of course, some skilled dialectologist in the KGB concocted the file in order to place Hanssen in our hands as a grand dangle, but that is what spookspeak calls sickthink .

    The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time William Safire 2004

  • The Telegraph obit leads off with the basic story: "Stanley Ellis, who has died aged 83, was Britain's best-known dialectologist and phonetician, and pioneered the forensic analysis of voice recordings, among them the hoax tape that derailed the Yorkshire Ripper inquiry."

    languagehat.com 2009

  • The Telegraph obit leads off with the basic story: "Stanley Ellis, who has died aged 83, was Britain's best-known dialectologist and phonetician, and pioneered the forensic analysis of voice recordings, among them the hoax tape that derailed the Yorkshire Ripper inquiry."

    languagehat.com 2009

  • The Telegraph obit leads off with the basic story: "Stanley Ellis, who has died aged 83, was Britain's best-known dialectologist and phonetician, and pioneered the forensic analysis of voice recordings, among them the hoax tape that derailed the Yorkshire Ripper inquiry."

    languagehat.com 2009

  • As long ago as 1952, he was "sent around the metropolis" to discover whether, in fact, any Cockney dialect remained (a famous dialectologist wrongly doubted this).

    VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol VIII No 1 1981

  • David & Charles, North Pomfret, Vermont, 1976. 144 pp. As long ago as 1905 the great British dialectologist Joseph Wright observed: "There can be no doubt that pure dialect speech is rapidly disappearing even in country districts, owing to the spread of education, and to modern facilities for intercommunication."

    VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol IV No 2 1977

  • Schaechter-Gottesman’s brother, Dr. Mordkhe Schaechter (b. 1927), pre-eminent linguist and key figure in Yiddish language planning, is an adaptive terminologist and dialectologist.

    Beyle Schaechter-Gottesman. Leye 2009

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