Agelect marks the distinction between different generations in terms of age. It is widely-accepted that age
differences result in differences at the level of behaviour, of mentality, and of ways of speaking. In a given speech
community, one may find clearly distinct agelect due to a set of salient factors that people of the same age share as
part of their culture. The question is whether this distinction will give rise to a gap between generations or to an
interesting medley of spoken varieties.