- In the
early 1970s
Derek Bickerton po****rized
these terms (as well as
mesolect for
intermediate points in the continuum) to
refer to the
phenomenon of...
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mainstream "
mesolect". The "basilect"
variety is less
similar to the
colonial language (natively-spoken English),
while the "
mesolect" is
somewhat more...
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Malaysian English may be
categorised into
three levels: the acrolect,
mesolect and basilect. The
acrolect is used by
those with near-native
level of proficiency...
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known as
mesolects. Consider, for example, the
following forms: "im/(h)ihn de/da/a wok úoba désò" (basilect) "im
workin ova deso" (low
mesolect) "(H)e (h)is...
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Standard speech; this is
widely accepted, and is the norm when
speaking the
mesolect known alternately as
lugha wusṭā ("middling/compromise language") or ʿAmmiyyat/Dārijat...
- the Netherlands. The supra-regional, semi-standardized
colloquial form (
mesolect) of
Dutch spoken in
Belgium uses the
vocabulary and the
sound inventory...
- upper-class
speakers [ai toːld hɪm]
mesolect varieties of
speech of middle-class
speakers [ai toːl ɪm]
mesolect varieties of lower-middle and
urban class...
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systematically from
intermediate varieties (collectively
referred to as the
mesolect) or even from the most
divergent rural varieties (collectively referred...
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Additional terms such as diatype, genre, text types, style, acrolect,
mesolect, basilect, sociolect, and ethnolect,
among many others, may be used to...
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language consists of
three sociolects; Acrolect,
Mesolect, and Basilect. Both
Acrolect and
Mesolect are
regarded as
Standard Singapore English, while...
