patrilectal

English

Etymology

patrilect +‎ -al

Adjective

patrilectal (not comparable)

1. Consistent with the patrilect.
   • 2000, Robert M. W. Dixon, Barry J. Blake, Handbook of Australian Languages - Volume 5, →ISBN, page 361:

     In short, the tendencies to regional endogamy (including coastal area endogamy) and patrilectal exogamy exist in practice, if not in law.

   • 2013, Christine Mallinson, Becky Childs, Gerard Van Herk, Data Collection in Sociolinguistics, →ISBN:

     Sui children rapidly learn to distinguish these clan-related dialects; young children may speak a mix of matrilect and patrilect, but older children and teenagers are almost fully patrilectal (Stanford, 2008b).

   • 2014, Martin Pütz, Justyna A. Robinson, Monika Reif, Cognitive Sociolinguistics, →ISBN, page 30:

     Children above five are ridiculed for any use of their mother's speech pattern, and by age five to seven, children use the patrilectal forms.

   • 2015, Claire Bowern, Bethwyn Evans, The Routledge Handbook of Historical Linguistics, →ISBN:

     Sui children have a mix of matrilect and patrilect at very young ages, but they eventually become fully patrilectal by late adolescence.