Sentence examples for for dialect from inspiring English sources

In cases where the two parents came from different dialectal areas, speaker residency was used as an operational criterion for dialect determination.

In cases where the two parents came from different dialectal areas, speaker residency was used as an operational secondary criterion for dialect determination.

His ear for dialect seems to have been acute.

His ear for dialect, both exotic and homegrown, and his impartial, assessing eye remind us that misfortune needs no passport.

His book has only one small but annoying flaw: a tin ear for dialect, but an insistence on using it.

Unusual for dialect tales of the period, the stories give a realistic picture of the pre-Civil War South, including descriptions of penurious, brutish masters.

Styron was deemed to have misjudged black psychology, and to have no ear for dialects.

His love of language and his great ear for dialects were all the more remarkable for being born out of an unhappy and testing childhood.

A native of the eastern shores of Maryland, Mr. Hollick developed a talent for dialects as a theater student at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, he said.

In this context, it was natural for dialects, which had not been used in popular music for years, to be embraced in many areas, especially in the South.

'The final outcome most possibly is that the market for putonghua will continue to grow bigger while that for dialects will shrink, but it can't be helped, it's a social trend,' he said.