Meaning of multiethnolectal | Babel Free

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Relating to a multiethnolect.

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“For instance, some speakers of Danish ethnic majority background are frequent users of multiethnolectal features, and some speakers with minority ethnic background never use⟳ these features as part of their repertoire.”

“In the phrase 'ida(g) vi lovade' (today we promised), typical Scanian intonation would gradually decline⟳ across the phrase and include⟳ two peaks and troughs. In the multiethnolectal style, declination was often absent. Additionally, three contours occur⟳ in the multiethnolectal phrase instead of two in the standard.”

“The results suggest⟳ that the quotative system in contemporary multiethnolectal Bernese German is shaped by a range of social and linguistic constraints, such as the presence or absence of quotative marker so, presence or absence of a quotative verb, presence or absence of a subject, speaker gender and speaker ethnicity.”

“The multiethnolectal urban contact⟳ dialects that can emerge⟳ under such favorable conditions, can take⟳ on two different forms: they can constitute multilingual mixed languages that integrate different contact⟳ languages, or new vernaculars of a majority language of the larger society.”

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