Related Term(s):

• acrolect
• basilect
• continuum
• decreolization
• speech continuum
• variety

Source(s):

CRYSTAL 2003262
TRASK 1996200
WALES 1989274
FRANCIS 198342
MATTHEWS 1997202 (also "lectal variation")
ELL903, 5139

• CRYSTAL, David. (2003) A Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics, 5th Ed Oxford: Blackwell.
• TRASK, R. L. (1996) A Dictionary of Phonetics and Phonology. London: Routledge. 
• WALES, Katie. (1989) A Dictionary of Stylistics. London: Longman. 
• FRANCIS, W.N. (1983) Dialectology: An Introduction. London: Longman.
• MATTHEWS, P.H. (1997) The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Linguistics. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• The Encyclopedia of Language & Linguistics. (1994) Oxford: Pergamon Press.

Domain:

Sociolinguistics