Variability
Published in Cambridge University Press eBooks • Dec 10, 1998
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Authors:,
J. K. Chambers
Peter Trudgill
Abstract
‘Everyone knows that language is variable’, said Edward Sapir in 1921. However, throughout the history of linguistics, linguists have tended to act as if language were not variable. Most linguistic theories have started from the assumption that variability in language is unmanageable, or uninteresti...
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