mesolect

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Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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A variety of speech that is midway between the acrolect and the basilect.

"[...] one characteristic of the mesolect seems to be that it contains, not merely forms from the polar lects, but forms which in function, if not always in phonetic shape, are peculiar to itself."

From meso- + -lect.

mesolects (plural)

mesolectal

code-switching

code-switching matrilect acrolect basilect

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