variationist
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
4
Syllables
8
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Meaning
noun
A sociolinguist who studies systematic patterns of variation of linguistic forms.
adj
Focused on systematic patterns of variation of linguistic forms.
Example Sentences
- "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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Subject
Wiktionary places this term in Linguistics.