单词	dialectology
释义	dialectology /ˌdʌɪəlɛkˈtɒlədʒi / noun [mass noun] The branch of linguistics concerned with the study of dialects.Regarding the second principle, the lessons of historical linguistics and dialectology provide the strongest arguments available for the linguistic validity of U.S. Spanish.... In this respect the study of dialects or dialectology has to do with boundaries, which often coincide with geographical features such as rivers and mountains. In generative dialectology, the investigator holds that the language exists within the speaker as a competence which is never fully realized in performance. Derivatives dialectological /ˌdʌɪəlɛktəˈlɒdʒɪk(ə)l/ adjective ... Roberts makes a rather obvious dialectological point, but it's one that is frequently lost on self-appointed guardians of good ‘grammar’. All tapes were recorded between 1955 and 1965 in the course of regular dialectological expeditions. The experts instructed those who wanted to participate in expeditions in methods of collection of dialectological materials and informants’ data as well as dialectologist's ethics. dialectologist /ˌdʌɪəlɛkˈtɒlədʒɪst / noun ... As a result of this study, philologists and dialectologists generally regard a dialect as a historical subtype of a language and a language as the aggregate of the features of its dialects. Traditional dialectologists believed that isolation led to linguistic diversity, while mixing of populations created uniformity. Peter Trudgill, a leading British sociolinguist and dialectologist now based at the University of Fribourg in Switzerland, visits the Department annually and works on the ONZE data for a month.
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