"mesolect" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1973 Sep, Derek Bickerton, “The Nature of a Creole Continuum”, in Language, 49(3), page 642",
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        "A variety of speech that is midway between the acrolect and the basilect."
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        "(sociolinguistics) A variety of speech that is midway between the acrolect and the basilect."
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          "word": "matrilect"
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        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "speech between acrolect and basilect",
          "word": "mesolekti"
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          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "speech between acrolect and basilect",
          "word": "mésolecte"
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          "sense": "speech between acrolect and basilect",
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          "word": "Mesolekt"
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          "code": "jam",
          "lang": "Jamaican Creole",
          "sense": "speech between acrolect and basilect",
          "word": "miizolek"
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          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "speech between acrolect and basilect",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
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          "word": "mesoleto"
        },
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          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "speech between acrolect and basilect",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "mesolecto"
        }
      ]
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  "word": "mesolect"
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      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "speech between acrolect and basilect",
      "word": "mesolekti"
    },
    {
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      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "speech between acrolect and basilect",
      "word": "mésolecte"
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      "sense": "speech between acrolect and basilect",
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      ],
      "word": "Mesolekt"
    },
    {
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      "lang": "Jamaican Creole",
      "sense": "speech between acrolect and basilect",
      "word": "miizolek"
    },
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      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "speech between acrolect and basilect",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "mesoleto"
    },
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      "word": "mesolecto"
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