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Examples of basilect

basilect
Thus, three tasks were administered to basilect-dominant speakers and two to acrolectdominant ones.
Of the spectral and temporal variables studied, differences between acrolect- and basilect-dominant speakers emerged most clearly in temporal vowel proper ties.
At the same time, basilect-dominant speakers show smaller spectral differences between opposing pairs in three subsystems.
Picture task data for the basilect-dominant sample showed a different pattern from word list data.
Unlike the acrolect-dominant speakers, no basilect-dominant speaker produced exclusively monophthongal variants in the word list data.
Stative verbs are more often inflected than nonstatives (256), consistent with ben-marking in the basilect.
This is clearest for the basilect-dominant speakers for both variables.
By comparison, male and female basilect-dominant speakers showed a great deal more downgliding variants in their conversational data than in their word list data.
The reason for this is that these are residual forms of the basilect (more characteristic of the pre-bas, which has over tones of being "broken").
This finding runs counter to the expectation that picture task data would provide responses similar to word list data for basilect-dominant speakers.
Interestingly, the trend noted here (males producing more downgliding forms than females) was not maintained in the picture task for the basilect-dominant speakers.
A "child-language" definition of the notions of acrolect, mesolect, and basilect must be different, to be sure, from an adult-language approach to these concepts.
This suggests that spectral distinctiveness may not play as prominent a role in vowel quality contrasts for basilect-dominant speakers as it does for acrolect-dominant ones.
The present data suggest that both basilect-dominant and acrolect-dominant speakers show stylistic variation.
Admittedly, they have described a more idealised basilect.
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