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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
(linguistics) A sociolinguist who studies systematic patterns of variation of linguistic forms..
The central ideas of variationist sociolinguistics are that an understanding of language requires an understanding of variable as well as categorical processes, and that the variation witnessed at all levels of language is not random.
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Variationist means (linguistics) A sociolinguist who studies systematic patterns of variation of linguistic forms..
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The central ideas of variationist sociolinguistics are that an understanding of language requires an understanding of variable as well as categorical processes, and that the variation witnessed at all levels of language is not random.
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