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How to pronounce idiolect in English?

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Type of language, oral communication, speech, speech communication, spoken communication, spoken language, voice communication

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In linguistics, an idiolect is a variety of a language unique to one individual person.
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More accurately, I don't think it is idiolect, but rather a term originated by Jason Mazzone.
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Bernard has a stranger idiolect, distinguished by sentences stripped of verbs or pronouns, reduced to fury.
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Author identification, idiolect and linguistic uniqueness.
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Who can really write in another person's idiolect, besides changing a few z's and c's and sprinkling in some u's.
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The concept of communication accommodation, either upwards or downwards in idiolect, can be seen in many social interactions.
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For scholars who regard language as a shared social practice, idiolect is more like a dialect with a speech community of one individual.
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Rennison's Tallulah is back, with her strange idiolect, at her performing arts school in Yorkshire, and working her way painfully and humorously through adolescence.
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The idiolect is a theoretical construct based on the idea that there is linguistic variation at the group level and hence there may also be linguistic variation at the individual level.
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  • The language or speech of one individual at a particular period in life
  • In linguistics, an idiolect is a variety of a language unique to an individual. It is manifested by patterns of vocabulary or idiom selection (the individual's lexicon), grammar, or pronunciations that are unique to the individual. Every individual's language production is in some sense unique. ...
  • The language used by one individual is sometimes called an idiolect. A dialect or language can then be regarded as a collection of mutually intelligible idiolects.
  • The language spoken by a single person (limiting case of a dialect).
  • Vocabulary, grammar, or other characteristics specific to an individual speaker or group of speakers.
  • The form of a language spoken by an individual as distinct from a group, class, or nation.
  • The particular way of speaking of a given person; the personal dialect of an individual, which probably does not differ much from the idiolects of those around him/her, but is always a bit different according the personal choice of words and phrases, shades of pronunciation, etc. ...
  • The aggregate of speech habits peculiar to an individual.
  • The speech of an individual.