article_snippet.sent: Unlike variation in phonology (often referred to as accent) and in the lexicon (different words), variation in grammatical systems within English has for the most part not been systematically investigated,' says Larry Horn, professor of linguistics and philosophy at Yale University. '
article_snippet.sent: This variation may be found among speakers who live in a certain geographical region, or who belong to a certain age group, or to a particular social or ethnic group,' Larry Horn, professor of linguistics and philosophy at Yale University adds.
article_snippet.sent: members of the project were not interested in what is considered to be correct  grammar, but in what people do naturally.
article_snippet.sent: That sentence just floored me,' says postdoctoral associate Jim Wood, a Yale University lecturer in linguistics. '
article_snippet.sent: It seemed very alien and different to postdoctoral associate Jim Wood, a Yale University lecturer in linguistics.'
article_snippet.sent: Often people are convinced that there is a right way of speaking a language and a wrong way of speaking that language. '
article_snippet.sent: From the point of view of a linguist, that is really off the mark for many reasons,' she says. '
article_snippet.sent: We linguists can see through this, because we have a more scientific approach to language,' says Linguistics Professor Raffaella Zanuttini. '