0 a form of a language that people speak in a particular part of a country, containing some different words and grammar, etc.:
1 a form of a language that is spoken in a particular part of a country or by a particular group of people and that contains some words, grammar, or pronunciations (= the ways in which words are said) that are different from the forms used in other parts or by other groups
As reported in all these studies, however, there is a fair amount of variability in speakers' intuitions of syllabification, even when dialect is controlled for.
Lack of sufficient data on the language of young dialect users has a number of implications.
Perhaps one should not be too surprised if the role of dialect contact in leading to dialect mixture has been rejected by such writers.
It is therefore plausible that in other groups in these places the dialect is affected even less by the standard language.
According to this hierarchy, a request in dialect seems to be the most important factor in predicting the presence of dialect.
Can we assess the role of dialect differences relative to other dimensions of situated discourse?
Chapter two addresses the old problem of the definitions of language and dialect.
This is possibly the most striking part of the dialect, especially at its most informal.
