Sentence examples for dialectal feature from inspiring English sources

Every dialectal feature has its own boundary line, called an isogloss (or sometimes heterogloss).

After the appearance of a new dialectal feature, interaction between speakers who have adopted this feature and those who have not leads to the expansion or the curtailment of its area or even to its disappearance.

In a single social milieu (generally the inhabitants of the same locality, generation, and social class), the chance of the complete adoption or rejection of a new dialectal feature is very great; the intense contact and consciousness of membership within the social group fosters such uniformity.

Reduction of the diphthongs /ae/ (to /ɛ/) and /au/ (to /ɔ/) seems also to be a popular and dialectal feature reflected in Vulgar Latin texts; in the latter case, however, the Romance languages do not support the hypothesis that the diphthong was reduced early, for it remains in Old Provençal and in Romanian and, probably, in early Old French.

The degree to which the assimilation of consonant clusters has taken place is an important dialectal feature separating Polar Eskimo, Inuktun, which still allows some ungeminated consonant clusters, from West and East Greenlandic.

As a general rule, those dialects, or at least certain dialectal features, with greater social prestige tend to replace those that are valued lower on the social scale.

And in that spirit, some Arab users of Reddit, a social sharing and discussion website, have simply decided to give voice to their dialects by recording a short humorous story, intentionally stressing the dialectal features, perhaps imagining an old uncle telling it.

This practice permits certain contrasts to be made among sounds that are significant in the description of dialectal features.

Most people struggle to write it correctly.Some pan-Arabist thinkers have called for codifying a "middle Arabic", based on the written standard, but stripped of much unnecessary complexity and including the most common dialectal features.

Accordingly, the number of linguistic variables that can be examined is quite limited, in comparison with the number of dialectal features normally recorded by traditional fieldworkers in rural communities; in these situations, the investigator is often satisfied with one or two responses for each feature.

Dyer examines the history of Soviet language policy in Moldova, where Soviet linguists attempted to create an independent literary language called "Moldavian". He focuses on the dialectal features of Moldovan Romanian and the relationship between the Romanian of Moldova and other regional languages.