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What is an idiolect?

What is an idiolect? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (linguistics) The language variant used by a specific individual.
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An idiolect is the dialect of an individual person at one time.
They seem to represent a bursting out, possibly in impatience, from both the complexity and the constrictions of the current American poetical idiolect.
We can all be categorised into a speech community by way of language, professional idiolect, local or acquired dialect, accent or habitual usage.
The way a person talks is called his or her idiolect.
If attribution research is to be done, it needs to attend to what authorship itself is and to what traits make good measures of idiolect.
Neologisms are distinct from a person's idiolect, one's unique patterns of vocabulary, grammar, and pronunciation.

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