Sentence examples for dialectologist from inspiring English sources
noun
A person who studies regional differences in speech sounds.
August 5, 1813 Sunnmøre, Norway September 23, 1896 Oslo, Norway Ivar Aasen, in full Ivar Andreas Aasen (born Aug. 5, 1813, Sunnmøre, Nor. died Sept. 23, 1896, Kristiania [Oslo]), language scholar and dialectologist, who created the written standard of Nynorsk (New Norwegian), one of the two official languages of Norway.
As a dialectologist, it's always a pleasure to see evidence – of which there is plenty, despite frequent and exaggerated reports to the contrary – of the endurance of local dialect.
"Alas," says the dialectologist Horn, "all the Web site usages I can find for Frankensense seem to be unintended misspellings of the traditional Christmas gift.
The study of regionalisms celebrates our nation's diversity, and the veteran dialectologist Metcalf is a master at it.
As early as 1905 06, a committee of Japanese dialectologists published the first linguistic atlas of Japan in two volumes, one devoted to phonology and one to morphology.
Dialectologists often distinguish between focal areas, which provide sources of numerous important innovations and usually coincide with centres of lively economic or cultural activity, and relic areas, places toward which such innovations are spreading but have not usually arrived.
The line separating the North and the Midlands — an area dialectologists define as stretching roughly from New Jersey westward to Kansas and Nebraska — is "the deepest division in our society" linguistically, Mr. Labov said, and it's only getting deeper.
