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May 3, 2024 · An idiolect is the dialect of an individual person at one time. This term implies an awareness that no two persons speak in exactly the same way and that each person’s dialect is constantly undergoing change—e.g., by the introduction of newly acquired words.
5 days ago · An idiolect is much smaller — it’s the way a particular person speaks, at a specific time, as distinct from others. This word is mainly used by linguists when discussing differences in speech from one person to another. Like your fingerprint, your idiolect is unique. It’s kind of like a micro-dialect.
Apr 25, 2024 · “Language” is defined by Merriam-Webster as “the words, their pronunciation and the methods of combining them used and understood by a community.” “Dialect” on the other hand is defined as “a regional variety of language distinguished by features of vocabulary, grammar and pronunciation.”
Apr 27, 2024 · 1 THE SKEPTICAL CHALLENGES: LINGUISTIC MEANING VS. REPRESENTATION/CONTENT. In the first part I argued that the primary form of Kripkenstein's skeptical challenge is to explain what it is for an expression to have a particular meaning in a speaker's idiolect (rather than another) (Kripke, 1982, p. 11; Reiland, 2024a).
4 days ago · The lexicon (also sometimes called the mental lexicon in this context) is a language user’s mental storage of that linguistic information that cannot be captured by rules. So this means that the lexicon stores linguistic units whose meaning cannot be predicted from its subparts. Meaning that cannot be predicted from its subparts is called non ...
Apr 26, 2024 · The use of the term "dialect" in these publications starts with the (translations of the) Chinese sources. But the term is problematic, because it describes a collection of ways of talking that are at least as diverse (and mutually (un)intelligible) as the Romance "dialects" like French and Italian and Spanish, or the Germanic "dialects" like German and Dutch and English.
6 days ago · Abstract. For forty years linguists have talked about idiolect and the uniqueness of individual utterances. This article explores how far these two concepts can be used to answer certain questions about the authorship of written documents—for instance how similar can two student essays be before one begins to suspect plagiarism?
