English noun: non-standard speech |
1. | non-standard speech (communication) speech that differs from the usual accepted, easily recognizable speech of native adult members of a speech community |
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| Broader (hypernym) | language, oral communication, speech, speech communication, spoken communication, spoken language, voice communication |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | accent, argot, baby talk, baby talk, babytalk, babytalk, cant, dialect, idiom, jargon, lingo, localism, motherese, patois, regionalism, slang, slang, slang expression, slang term, telegraphese, vernacular, vernacular |
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