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As a rule, natural languages like English or German are not homogenous. Their concrete manifestations, as they are observable in the language behavior of their speakers, usually show a great deal of variability. The language as a whole is made up of a large system of “varieties”, each variety being a more or less stable set of regularities that can be observed in the language use of certain groups of speakers under certain conditions.
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Klein, W., Dittmar, N. (1979). Dimensions of Language Variability. In: Developing Grammars. Springer Series in Language and Communication, vol 1. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-67385-6_2
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