LANGUAGE VARIATION A. Defenition Language variation is a core conception sociolinguistics. Variation is a characteristic of language; there is more than one way of saying the same thing. Speaker may vary pronuciation (accent), word choice (lexicon), or morphology and syntax (sometimes called “grammar”). B. Regional Variation According (wisniewski 2007) regional variation of languages is also subject to linguistic investigations. General descriptions of languages focusing on pronunciation, or grammar usually provide information about the standard variety of a given language, nonetheless, that does not mean that is is in any respect better than its other varieties.The study of regional variation in English is sometimes known as dialectonology. C. Linguistic Variable Examples from african amrican english, the systematic, rule – governed variety of English used predominantly by African Americans : · Phonetics : The vowelss in “trap