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NON-STANDARD SPEECH
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Speech that differs from the usual accepted, easily recognizable speech of native adult members of a speech community
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("non-standard speech" is a kind of...):
language; oral communication; speech; speech communication; spoken communication; spoken language; voice communication ((language) communication by word of mouth)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "non-standard speech"):
baby talk; babytalk (the developing speech of a young child)
baby talk; babytalk; motherese (an adult's imitation of the speech of a young child)
accent; dialect; idiom (the usage or vocabulary that is characteristic of a specific group of people)
localism (a phrase or pronunciation that is peculiar to a particular locality)
regionalism (a feature (as a pronunciation or expression or custom) that is characteristic of a particular region)
telegraphese (language characterized by terseness and ellipsis as in telegrams)
vernacular (the everyday speech of the people (as distinguished from literary language))
argot; cant; jargon; lingo; patois; slang; vernacular (a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves))
slang; slang expression; slang term (informal language consisting of words and expressions that are not considered appropriate for formal occasions; often vituperative or vulgar)
