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	Diglossia - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Especially in endoglossia the (L) form may also be called "basilect", the (H) form "acrolect", and an intermediate form "mesolect".
		Most linguist use the term ‘’Brazilian Portuguese’’ to describe the mesolect of Brazilian Vernacular, not the Standard Brazilian Portuguese which is almost identical to Standard European Portuguese.
		The mesolect form of Brazilian Vernacular (that is, the one used in the speech of middle class Brazilians) is the form of Brazilian Portuguese language taught at American universities.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Diglossia (1465 words)

	Review of Peter Patrick's Urban Jamaican Creole
		Patrick addresses several interrelated questions about the creole mesolect which he summarizes in the conclusions of the book as follows: 1) what is ìthe nature of mesolectal grammar?î and 2) what is ìthe sociolinguistic structure of variation in the creole continuum?î (292).
		Thus positing a mesolectal grammar that is distinct from basilectal grammar is problematic, as much as I agree with Patrick that mesolectal grammar is structurally heterogeneous.
		He correctly states that mesolectal Jamaican speech is structurally heterogeneous, dissociates the continuum from ìdecreolization,î and argues that a multidimensional characterization of this linguistic situation is preferable to a unidimensional oneóa position he proves well in the chapters where he discusses variables other than ìphonolexicalî KYA (see below).
	humanities.uchicago.edu /faculty/mufwene/mufw_patrick.html (2058 words)

	Britain.tv Wikipedia - Diglossia
		This form of spoken Cantonese is a higher register and can be considered the acrolect (or perhaps the mesolect if spoken Mandarin is considered the acrolect) to the colloquial Cantonese basilect.
		This situation was also the case when Classical Chinese was the standard written language, but the comprehensibility of classical text spoken in the native dialects was much lower, if not nonexistent.
		Many linguists use the term "Brazilian Portuguese"?title=to describe the mesolect of Brazilian Vernacular, not the Standard Brazilian Portuguese which is almost identical to Standard European Portuguese.
	www.britain.tv /wikipedia.php?title=Diglossia (3495 words)

	Acrolect - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		An acrolect is a register of a spoken language that is considered formal and high-style.
		In the early 1970s, Derek Bickerton proposed the words acrolect, mesolect, and basilect to refer to the phenomenon of code-switching used by some users of creole languages who also have some fluency in the standard language upon which the contact language is based.
		The words subsequently were generalized to refer to code-switching between registers within any language.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Acrolect (522 words)

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		However, examination of the patterns of alternation in mesolectal Gullah should be of interest to the study of both English-based creole continua and modern-day African-American English (AAE) (believed by some creolists to have originally derived from a Gullah-like creole).
		The high percentages of zero marking in Table 2 suggest that past inflection is not the vernacular norm in the Gullah mesolect.
		Patrick, P. Creoles at the intersection of variable processes: -t,d deletion and past marking in the Jamaican mesolect.
	www.ling.upenn.edu /~nagy/nwav/WWWabs/Weldon.html (330 words)

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		Creoles also appear to undergo a process of decay and eventual obsolescence in some instances where contact with the superstrate continues.
		This process is called decreolization, and is usually attended by a phenomenon called a post-creole continuum, in which speakers range from a more creolized variety, the basilect, toward and intermediate varitiy (mesolect) toward the standard, or acrolect.
		The "-lect" terms represent poles in a continuum--except mesolect, which represents the continuum itself rather than a particular position.
	way.net /creole/p-c_decr.html (149 words)

	Human Language (Speech) Technology Resources, Corpora
		Their English may be typified as fluent and on the higher level of the continuum basilect - mesolect - acrolect[ii].
		The Southern Sotho and Zulu speakers are generally fluent speakers of English, but nevertheless have to be classified as mesolect users of English by reason of their nonmother-tongue-like accent, which very noticeably different from that of acrolect speakers.
		[ii] Basilect speakers are mostly labourers, domestic servants etc.; mesolect speakers would typically be teachers (thus students, too), nurses etc., and acrolect speakers would be university lecturers, broadcasters, politicians, businessmen and medical specialists.
	www.puk.ac.za /opencms/export/PUK/html/fakulteite/lettere/HLT_Resources/Publications/BSAE_WE-article_final.html (5610 words)

	trinicenter.com \| WINFORD JAMES \| A Signature of Tobagonian Speech
		One way in which they are similar is that they both speak the same variety of Creole English in normal daily public communication; this variety is called a mesolect.
		From a sociological perspective, it is interesting that Tobagonians and Trinidadians understand one another in the mesolect, but that Trinidadians do not understand Tobagonians when the latter speak the basilect.
		The basilect sets Tobagonians linguistically apart from Trinidadians and in this column I will discuss one of its grammatical words that is a signature of the Tobagonian in our national sociological space.
	www.trinicenter.com /winford/2942001.htm (665 words)

	Daily Egyptian: 1/28/97: Ebonics debate defined (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		He said anyone on the bisalect level has a strong use of Ebonics.
		Those who use Ebonics frequently, but are able to convert to standard English, would be categorized as mesolect, and those who speak standard English often but can convert to Ebonics are categorized as acrolect.
		Abdul-Hakim said there is a solution for the students believing they are inferior or unintelligent because of social stigmas related to Ebonics.
	www.dailyegyptian.com /spring97/012897/debate.html (726 words)

	youth link - Jamaica - for the world latest fashion, school news, movies, sports and much more...
		It is most often spoken in rural areas and by uneducated persons.
		MESOLECT is the form of Creole with more English derived features than the basilect and is said to be the point on the continuum next to the basilect.
		It is most often spoken by urban and educated persons.
	www.youthlinkjamaica.com /cxc/commstudy20040210.html (816 words)

	Register (linguistics) - ArticleWorld (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Some linguists argue against the use of the term, because it suggests normative and prescriptive judgments.
		Others study the phenomenon in terms of basilect, mesolect, and arcolect, style, jargon, or genre.
		This page was last modified 09:11, 4 January 2006.
	www.articleworld.org /index.php?title=Register_(linguistics) (407 words)

	The Ultimate Mesolect Dog Breeds Information Guide and Reference
		The Ultimate Mesolect Dog Breeds Information Guide and Reference
		A mesolect is a register whose character falls somewhere between the prestige of the acrolect and the informality of the basilect.
		Mesolectic speech, where is is distinguished from acrolectic, is often the most widely spoken form of a language, generally being used by the middle class.
	www.dogluvers.com /dog_breeds/Mesolect (75 words)

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	Peter Patrick Urban Jamaican Creole: Variation in the Mesolect (Varieties of English Around the World 17) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Peter Patrick Urban Jamaican Creole: Variation in the Mesolect (Varieties of English Around the World 17)
		Urban Jamaican Creole: Variation in the Mesolect (Varieties of English Around the World 17)
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	Selected Bibliography
		Review of Shana Poplack, ed., The English History of African American English.
		"The Insights of the Mesolect." In Pidgins and Creoles: Current Trends and Prospects, ed.
		"Past Marking in the Mesolect: A Close Look at Bonnette." In Variation in Language, ed.
	www.stanford.edu /~rickford/bibliography.html (1654 words)

	Exam Three Sample Test
		A Jamiacan speaker says, "You a go burn fire, mi a go deal you a dis, dat." He is operating in
		Answer: (B) although we might propose he's moving close to a mesolect if we had more speech to look at.
		Our best guess in this group is the basilect end of the post-creole continuum.
	www.acs.appstate.edu /~mcgowant/4660test3new.htm (1233 words)

	Ways to Speak Kriol
		The acrolect is the local form of the superstrate language.
		The mesolect represents the numerous confused variations which basilect speakers produce when trying to produce the acrolect.
		In the following example we see how speech can vary over the continuum:
	www.kriol.org.bz /LanguagePages/Language_Ways.htm (277 words)

	Decreolization (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Acrolect It's my book I didn't eat any
		Mesolect Iz me buk A in nyam non
		Basilect I fi mi buk dat Mi na bin nyam non
	www.clas.ufl.edu /users/rthompso/decreolization.html (27 words)

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		Urban Jamaican Creole: Variation in the Mesolect (Varieties of English Around the World General Series) (Hardcover)
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