Accommodation (linguistics)
The term accommodation comes from language contact research in linguistics .
It is a process of adaptation in which speakers of different dialectal varieties try to reduce the differences in their respective ways of speaking and, as far as possible, to adapt to the way of speaking of the partner. This means that particularly conspicuous phenomena of a dialect that the interlocutor does not know are avoided.
The adaptation takes place in the areas of vocabulary , morphology , syntax , prosody and phonology .