"mimolect" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From mimo- + -lect.",
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        {
          "ref": "1989, Ofelia García, Ricardo Otheguy, English across cultures, cultures across English, →ISBN, page 277:",
          "text": "At some point in the decreolization process, however, xenolectal structures become masked by surface-structure mimicry of the matrilect, so that the apparent degree of xenolecticity of the evolving mimolect drops below the real level, as represented by the crossover of A-B and C-D.",
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          "ref": "1990, Edward Herman Bendix, The Uses of Linguistics - Volume 583, →ISBN, page 43:",
          "text": "In the process, as substantial numbers of black speakers underwent decreolization, their decreolized speech, although technically a mimolect, would have much of the surface form and therefore social status of a true matrilect, and would itself then serve as an additional model for those speakers further behind in the decreolization process.",
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        {
          "ref": "2009, Anna Maria D'Amore, Translating Contemporary Mexican Texts, →ISBN, page 110:",
          "text": "As a xenolect develops, it becomes mimolect, that is, a variety whose external appearance resembles that of another (Stewart, 1989: 263-280).",
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        "A xenolect that has become separated from its matrilect both geographically and communicatively."
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          "communicatively"
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  "word": "mimolect"
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  "etymology_text": "From mimo- + -lect.",
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          "ref": "1989, Ofelia García, Ricardo Otheguy, English across cultures, cultures across English, →ISBN, page 277:",
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          "text": "In the process, as substantial numbers of black speakers underwent decreolization, their decreolized speech, although technically a mimolect, would have much of the surface form and therefore social status of a true matrilect, and would itself then serve as an additional model for those speakers further behind in the decreolization process.",
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