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  • ...t]] is any variety of a [[language]], regardless of the kind of variation (social, regional, diachronic, etc.) *[[dialect]]
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  • .... 2008. Ethnicity, Friendship Network and Social Practices as the Motor of Dialect Change: Linguistic Innovation in London. ''Sociolinguistica'', 22: 1–23.
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  • ...s often only control one or two social varieties of language (standard and dialect), while they use a “wide range of registers” (Barnickel 1982, 13; Biber In contrast to [[dialect]], which Halliday (1990, 41) defines as a “variety of language according
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  • ...hich are not really mutually intelligible). And whether a speech form is a dialect or just a subdialect is likewise often undecidable. Linguists use the term ...n inventory of grammatical patterns, semantic knowledge, and pragmatic and social abilities. If any of these subsystems is lacking or not working properly, l
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