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Idiolect
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Idiolect 

(also called individual language), the linguistic habits of a given individual in a particular time period. Such linguistic phenomena as the various speech communities— professional, social, and territorial dialects and jargons—are formed on the basis of the aggregate of idiolects unified by a relationship of mutual comprehension. The idiolect is a conventional concept, since the same person, as a rule, uses different linguistic means in different situations of communication. Researchers in logopedics are investigating the individual idiolects of aphasiacs.



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Empirical data: materials and method In the study, idiolects from different locations in the Republic of Mordovia and diaspora were used to obtain data of spoken and read speech.
The speakers of idiolects lacking vowel reduction show the least difference between the cases of initial and non-initial stress (initial stress in 50% of cases, non-initial stress in 37%), the speakers of idiolects with reduction use the pattern of initial stress significantly more often (60-68%).
Analysis of inter-idiolect data showed a comparatively high mobility of stress and a tendency towards equal vowel duration in stressed and unstressed syllables in idiolects using full vowels.
 
 
 
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