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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“"

   Word Origin 1940s: from idio- ‘own, personal’ + -lect as in dialect.

   Scrabble Points: 11

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

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

3. dictionary.cambridge.org › us › dictionaryIDIOLECT | definition in the Cambridge English Dictionary

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

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

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   Nov 15, 2004 · Idiolects. 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.

5. www.vocabulary.com › dictionary › idiolectIdiolect - Definition, Meaning & Synonyms | Vocabulary.com

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   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.

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

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   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).

7. www.britannica.com › topic › idiolectIdiolect | linguistics | Britannica

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   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. Most recent investigations… Read More. individual speech habits.

8. www.dictionary.com › browse › idiolectIDIOLECT Definition & Meaning | Dictionary.com

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   Idiolect definition: a person's individual speech pattern.. See examples of IDIOLECT used in a sentence.