acrolectal
English
Etymology
From acrolect + -al.
Adjective
acrolectal (not comparable)
- (linguistics) Of or pertaining to an acrolect, or standard dialect
- 1985, Nessa Wolfson & Joan Manes, Language of Inequality, →ISBN, page 158:
- I prepared the three Matched Guise samples myself, controlling the forms carefully to represent basilectal, mesolectal, and acrolectal levels of usage
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Derived terms
- acrolectally
Translations
pertaining to an acrolect
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Portuguese
Adjective
acrolectal m or f (plural acrolectais)
- Superseded spelling of acroletal. (Superseded in Brazil by the 1943 spelling reform and by the Portuguese Language Orthographic Agreement of 1990 elsewhere. Still used in countries where the agreement hasn’t come into effect and as an alternative spelling in Portugal.)