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Variation (linguistics)

Variation is a characteristic of language: there is more than one way of saying the same thing in a given language. Variation can exist in domains such as pronunciation (e.g., more than one way of pronouncing the same phoneme or the same word), lexicon (e.g., multiple words with the same meaning), grammar (e.g., different syntactic constructions…

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Association with age

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Variation (linguistics)

Nodes70
Edges69
Triples1
Avg. degree1.97
Density0.028571
Components1

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pronunciationinstance ofVariation can exist in domains0.80text

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