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Etymology edit

idiolect +‎ -al

Adjective edit

idiolectal (comparative more idiolectal, superlative most idiolectal)

  1. Of or relating to an idiolect.
    • 2018, Clarence Green, James Lambert, “Advancing disciplinary literacy through English for academic purposes: Discipline-specific wordlists, collocations and word families for eight secondary subjects”, in Journal of English for Academic Purposes, volume 35, →DOI, page 106:
      [G]iven the idiolectal nature of language, teachers vary on which vocabulary they think important.

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