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    Id·i·o·lect
    /ˈidēəˌlek(t)/

    noun

    • 1. the speech habits peculiar to a particular person: "in his strange idiolect, he preferred to call angels “angelicals“"
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  3. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › IdiolectIdiolect - Wikipedia

    Idiolect is an individual's unique use of language, including speech. This unique usage encompasses vocabulary, grammar, and pronunciation. This differs from a dialect, a common set of linguistic characteristics shared among a group of people.

  4. www.thoughtco.com › idiolect-language-term-1691143Idiolects: Definition, Discussion, and Examples - ThoughtCo

    Jul 3, 2019 · An idiolect is the distinctive speech of an individual, a linguistic pattern regarded as unique among speakers of a person's language or dialect. Learn how idiolects are shaped by social factors, personal preferences, and regional variations, and how they differ from dialects in terms of vocabulary, pronunciation, and style.

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  5. www.babbel.com › en › magazineWhat Is An Idiolect? - Babbel.com

    Aug 28, 2020 · An idiolect is the specific way that a single person speaks. This includes a person vocabulary, grammar, pronunciation and anything else that affects the way words come out of their mouth.

  6. www.merriam-webster.com › dictionary › idiolectIdiolect Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster

    The meaning of IDIOLECT is the language or speech pattern of one individual at a particular period of life.

  7. plato.stanford.edu › entries › idiolectsIdiolects (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)

    Nov 15, 2004 · For the purposes of this entry an idiolect is a language the linguistic (i. e. syntactic, phonological, referential, etc.) properties of which can be exhaustively specified in terms of the intrinsic properties of some single individual, the person whose idiolect it is.

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  9. www.oxfordbibliographies.com › abstract › documentIdiolect - Linguistics - Oxford Bibliographies

    Nov 29, 2018 · The term “idiolect” is widely accepted to have been first used in Bloch 1948, to refer to “the totality of the possible utterances of one speaker at one time in using language to interact with one other speaker” (p. 7).

  10. dictionary.cambridge.org › dictionary › englishIDIOLECT | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary

    IDIOLECT definition: 1. the form of a language that a particular person speaks 2. the form of a language that a…. Learn more.

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