Language and Linguistics
Non-deterministic approaches in language studies are largely inspired by the work of Ferdinand de Saussure. In usage-based linguistic theories, for example, where it is argued that competence, or langue, is based on performance, or parole. To the extent that linguistic knowledge is constituted by experience with language, grammar is argued to be probabilistic and variable rather than fixed and absolute. This now largely discredited conception of grammar as probabilistic and variable is thought to follow from the idea that one's competence changes in accordance with one's experience with language.
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