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Properly addressing the issue of variation is crucial for improving our understanding of language as a cognitive faculty

2023-01-13

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<p>Language sciences (and cognitive sciences more generally) need to properly embrace one core feature of human language: variability. In this paper we build on findings about the diversity of language functions, typological differences between languages, and sociolinguistic phenomena to sketch the prolegomena of a cognitive science of variation in language.</p>

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Literature Corpus work: 86dc6703-6b28-52bc-bad0-353338d2075a
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/8ex59

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