Multiethnolectal
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Multiethnolectal is an adjective meaning Relating to a multiethnolect.
Meaning
Relating to a multiethnolect.
Example Sentences
For instance, some speakers of Danish ethnic majority background are frequent users of multiethnolectal features, and some speakers with minority ethnic background never use these features as part of their repertoire.
The multiethnolectal urban contact dialects that can emerge under such favorable conditions, can take on two different forms: they can constitute multilingual mixed languages that integrate different contact languages, or new vernaculars of a majority language of the larger society.
In the phrase 'ida(g) vi lovade' (today we promised), typical Scanian intonation would gradually decline across the phrase and include two peaks and troughs. In the multiethnolectal style, declination was often absent. Additionally, three contours occur in the multiethnolectal phrase instead of two in the standard.
The results suggest that the quotative system in contemporary multiethnolectal Bernese German is shaped by a range of social and linguistic constraints, such as the presence or absence of quotative marker so, presence or absence of a quotative verb, presence or absence of a subject, speaker gender and speaker ethnicity.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include ethnolectal, ethnoplural, ethnosociological, sociolectical, ecolectic, sociolectic.
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