单词 | transition area |
释义 | > as lemmastransition area d. Linguistics. attributive. Designating an area in which the dialect shows a mixture of linguistic features from neighbouring dialects, as transition area, etc. ΚΠ 1915 Bull. Amer. Geogr. Soc. 47 423 A transition zone between Czech and Polish exists here and is characterized by a local dialect of mixed language. 1950 Texas Stud. in Eng. 29 254 The transition area (where both [s] and [z] are used), is relatively narrow to the west of Philadelphia. 1972 H. Kurath Stud. Area Ling. iii. 44 The transition area between the North and the Midland reflects partly the complicated history of the settlement. 2010 B. Kortmann in P. Auer & J. E. Schmidt Lang. & Space xlvi. 853 A transition zone may also allow more variants than either of its neighboring zones. < as lemmas |
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