idiolect
IPA: ˈɪdiʌɫˈɛkt
noun
- (linguistics) The language variant used by a specific individual.
Examples of "idiolect" in Sentences
- Most common name in my idiolect.
- No two people's idiolect are alike.
- It's a matter of dialect or even idiolect.
- They form what linguists call an idiolect.
- It may be part of an idiolect but it's not clear.
- May 9, 2009 12: 11 PM dormouse replied to idiolect
- There's suspicion that it's an idiolect or conlang.
- May 9, 2009 3: 40 PM idiolect replied to asseenontv
- May 9, 2009 1: 10 PM asseenontv replied to idiolect
- May 9, 2009 4: 08 PM asseenontv replied to idiolect
- Obsessivism chatters to itself in a bizarre idiolect.
- Author identification, idiolect and linguistic uniqueness.
- "idiolect" -- the vehicle of thought unique to each person, the basic layer.
- In my idiolect, a napkin is made of cloth, while a serviette is made of paper.
- And @idiolect - anxiety can definitely be a clinical problem but as I read it here, I think there is a correlation to weight.
- When I was talking about sentential hopefully, I said that hopefully meaning “in a hopeful manner” had pretty much fallen out of my idiolect.
- "The notion of 'idiolect' therefore, must be as preoccupied with derivation and idiosynchratic patterns of influence as it is with individuality."
- Experts have tried putting a figure on it, and there have been various groupings going from six to 16, but you can carry on sub-dividing that down until you get to what serious students of this subject refer to as the idiolect.