Dialect
A dialect is a form of the language that is spoken in a particular part of the country or by a particular group of people. There are many different dialects of English and they have different words and grammar. Most learners of English learn the standard dialects of the language. …

dialect | American Dictionary

dialect
noun[ C/U ]
us/ˈdɑɪ·əˌlekt/
grammar
a form of a language that is spoken in a particular part of a country or by a particular group of people and that contains some words, grammar, or pronunciations (= the ways in which words are said) that are different from the forms used in other parts or by other groups

Examples of dialect

dialect
As reported in all these studies, however, there is a fair amount of variability in speakers' intuitions of syllabification, even when dialect is controlled for.
Lack of sufficient data on the language of young dialect users has a number of implications.
Perhaps one should not be too surprised if the role of dialect contact in leading to dialect mixture has been rejected by such writers.
It is therefore plausible that in other groups in these places the dialect is affected even less by the standard language.
According to this hierarchy, a request in dialect seems to be the most important factor in predicting the presence of dialect.
Can we assess the role of dialect differences relative to other dimensions of situated discourse?
Chapter two addresses the old problem of the definitions of language and dialect.
This is possibly the most striking part of the dialect, especially at its most informal.
The third-person-singular present tense in this dialect is characterized by a -zero marker, which is in variation with the standard -s marker.
It also belongs to a dialect, but whether this should really be labelled 'royalese' as if this were a distinct dialect is doubtful.
Treatment of social network and linguistic variation has not been carried out in settings where dramatically different dialects are in contact.
Needless to say, these three requirements must be satisfied for the dialect where auxiliary do arose.
Another result has been the increase of multi-voicedness in market discourse - a greater number of accents, dialects, and ethnic minority languages.
Different dialects thus should be seen as different phonological systems, rather than as variants of some "common" system.
In a dialect mixture situation, large numbers of variants from the different dialects involved in the mixture are present.
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Collocations withdialect

dialect

These are words often used in combination with dialect.

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dialect region
A second group learned to categorise three talkers from each dialect region.
different dialect
And what of those who speak a differentdialect from that used in the court (or other legal contexts)?
local dialect
Most of the recordings, however, have been undertaken by students born in the region and competent in the localdialect.
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