The only viable alternative is " Bosnian / Croatian / Serbian / Montenegrin ", which is rather awkward . " Central South Slavic diasystem " is occasionally seen, but has other problems.
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Take his complaint : " he fixates on my mistakes, particularl an instance when I misspoke at Talk : Diasystem " . " Misspeak " means you say the wrong thing when you know better.
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Before the Treaty of Union 1707, when Scotland and England joined to form the Kingdom of Great Britain, there is ample evidence that Scots was widely held to be an independent sister language forming a pluricentric diasystem with English.
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Although captive birds show difficulty understanding the calls of birds from nearby regions, those allowed to migrate are able to understand calls from both, suggesting that they have mentally constructed a diasystem that enables them to understand both call systems.
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Although question remains to their psychological reality, the usefulness of diaphonemes is shown in with the loss of the Fijian marriage customs that prompt exposure to other dialects, speakers may possess a diasystem that represents multiple dialects as part of their communicative competence.
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At Diasystem, he spent a week feigning ignorance of one of his own insertions, then changed tack and professed not to understand ( " why is it a gotcha " ) that its longterm presence meant he had contradicted himself when making a recent complaint.
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:: : We have articles on Diaphone _ ( linguistics ) and Diasystem, though neither one seems all that great ( the Diasystem article seems to define " pluricentric language ", not diasystem as such ) . talk ) 06 : 47, 14 October 2008 ( UTC)
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:: : We have articles on Diaphone _ ( linguistics ) and Diasystem, though neither one seems all that great ( the Diasystem article seems to define " pluricentric language ", not diasystem as such ) . talk ) 06 : 47, 14 October 2008 ( UTC)
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:: : We have articles on Diaphone _ ( linguistics ) and Diasystem, though neither one seems all that great ( the Diasystem article seems to define " pluricentric language ", not diasystem as such ) . talk ) 06 : 47, 14 October 2008 ( UTC)
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The term " diasystem " was coined by linguist and dialectologist Uriel Weinreich in a 1954 paper as part of an initiative in exploring how to extend advances in generative theory in the 1960s, researchers tried applying a generative approach in developing diasystemic explanations; this also fell short.
