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Variable Properties in Language: Their Nature and Acquisition

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Variable Properties in Language: Their Nature and Acquisition - Lightfoot, David W (Contributions by), and Havenhill, Jonathan (Editor)
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This edited volume, based on papers presented at the 2017 Georgetown University Round Table on Language and Linguistics (GURT), approaches the study of language variation from a variety of angles. Language variation research asks broad questions such as, "why are languages' grammatical structures different from one another?" as well as more specific word-level questions such as, "why are words that are pronounced differently still recognized to be the same words?" Too often, research on variation has been siloed based on ...

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Variable Properties in Language: Their Nature and Acquisition 2019, Georgetown University Press, Washington

ISBN-13: 9781626166646

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Variable Properties in Language: Their Nature and Acquisition 2019, Georgetown University Press, Washington

ISBN-13: 9781626166639

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