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patrilectal en · ADJ

Etymology

From patrilect + -al.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Consistent with the patrilect.
    • Children above five are ridiculed for any use of their mother's speech pattern, and by age five to seven, children use the patrilectal forms. 2014, Martin Pütz, Justyna A. Robinson, Monika Reif, Cognitive Sociolinguistics, →ISBN, page 30:
    • In short, the tendencies to regional endogamy (including coastal area endogamy) and patrilectal exogamy exist in practice, if not in law. 2000, Robert M. W. Dixon, Barry J. Blake, Handbook of Australian Languages - Volume 5, →ISBN, page 361:
    • Sui children rapidly learn to distinguish these clan-related dialects; young children may speak a mix of matrilect and patrilect, but older children and teenagers are almost fully patrilectal (Stanford, 2008b). 2013, Christine Mallinson, Becky Childs, Gerard Van Herk, Data Collection in Sociolinguistics, →ISBN:
    • Sui children have a mix of matrilect and patrilect at very young ages, but they eventually become fully patrilectal by late adolescence. 2015, Claire Bowern, Bethwyn Evans, The Routledge Handbook of Historical Linguistics, →ISBN: