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Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
noun
An instance of the same speaker/signer using two or more variants of a sociolinguistic variable in the same section of discourse.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: human-sciences, linguistics, sciences, social-science, sociolinguistics, sociology
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
History
Coined by Sali Tagliamonte in 2006.
