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  • Only an absolute diehard of this "bottom-up" approach would insist on distinguishing as different words representations for the same idiolectal word.

    Types and Tokens Wetzel, Linda 2006

  • What makes a perspective on language idiolectal is not its insistence that languages cannot be shared, but that it drops any appeal to languages whose properties are tied essentially to a population.

    Idiolects Barber, Alex 2004

  • But when I read DeLong on Douthat, I was pretty sure that in this case, the omission of the verb phrase was way outside the bounds, and had to be a mistake rather than an idiolectal quirk.

    Language Log 2009

  • This entry will concentrate on two influential and broadly idiolectal positions in the philosophy of language and linguistics: Noam Chomsky's preference for I-languages over E-languages (Section 2), and Donald Davidson's rejection of languages conceived as shared conventional structures that make communication possible (Section

    Idiolects Barber, Alex 2004

  • But some approaches that it would be proper to classify on the E-language side of Chomsky's contrast ” Quine's, for example ” are idiolectal in the sense introduced earlier.

    Idiolects Barber, Alex 2004

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