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Synchronic vs. Diachronic Explanation and the Nature of ...

explanation shifted from the ways linguistic patterns arise over time to the properties of those patterns themselves. For much of the first half of that century, however, the linguist’s ... brute physical facts of these utterances, but must also take into account the filtering role of

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