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St. Clair, Robert – Language Sciences, 1973
The claim that dialects of a language do not always share the same underlying forms is known as the independency principle. (DD)
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Dialects, Grammar, Language Patterns
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Pulgram, Ernst – Language Sciences, 1995
The study discusses the position of the protolanguage in the hierarchy formed by idiolect, dialect, and diasystem. The article emphasizes that linguistic study contains a great many diachronic events and hypothesized synchronic features that are implausible, yet possible. (30 references) (CK)
Descriptors: Anthropological Linguistics, Contrastive Linguistics, Diachronic Linguistics, Dialects