Uniformity Principle

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In the absence of compelling evidence to the contrary, assume languages to be uniform, with variety restricted to easily detectable properties of utterances.

Links

Utrecht Lexicon of Linguistics

References

  • Chomsky, N. 1999. Derivation by phase, MIT occasional papers in Linguistics 18,
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