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free vari·a·tion
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free variationnoun
Two or more forms appearing in the same environment without a change in meaning and without either one being considered incorrect
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Free variation
In linguistics, free variation is the phenomenon of two (or more) sounds or forms appearing in the same environment without a change in meaning and without being considered incorrect by native speakers.Sociolinguists argue that describing such variation as "free" is very often a misnomer, since variation between linguistic forms is usually constrained probabilistically by a range of systematic social and linguistic factors, not unconstrained as the term "free variation" suggests. The term remains in use in studies focused primarily on language as systems (e.g. phonology, morphology, syntax), however, since "[t]he fact that variation is 'free' does not imply that it is totally unpredictable, but only that no grammatical principles govern the distribution of variants."
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Free variation
Free variation in linguistics is the phenomenon of two sounds or forms appearing in the same environment without a change in meaning and without being considered incorrect by native speakers.
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of free variation in Chaldean Numerology is: 3
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of free variation in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8
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