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mesolects

mesolects is the plural of mesolect.

Meaning of mesolect

Noun

mesolect (plural mesolects)

  1. A variety of speech that is midway between the acrolect and the basilect.
    • [...] one characteristic of the mesolect seems to be that it contains, not merely forms from the polar lects, but forms which in function, if not always in phonetic shape, are peculiar to itself.1973 Sep, Derek Bickerton, “The Nature of a Creole Continuum”, in Language, 49(3), page 642

Questions about mesolects

What is mesolects the plural of?
Mesolects is the plural of mesolect.

Words near mesolects in the dictionary

  1. mesolayers
  2. mesole
  3. mesolecithal
  4. mesolect
  5. mesolectal
  6. mesolects
  7. mesoleg
  8. mesolegs
  9. mesolevel
  10. mesolevels
  11. mesolimbic

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