The topic of variation in language has received considerable attention in the field of general linguistics. This title focuses on how different types of variation are expressed in the input and how this is acquired by young children.[...]
Ovdalian is spoken in central Sweden by about 2000 speakers. Traditionally categorized as a dialect of Swedish, it has not received much international attention. However, Ovdalian is typologically closer to Faroese or Icelandic than it is to Swedish, and since it has been spoken in relative isolatio[...]