When intra-individual variation in language use is discussed it tends to be seen as not having much significance. The recognizability of the relation of variants to each other is (usually tacitly) acknowledged; intra-individual variation is often attributed to influence across different varieties of the language in question (and, in L2 variation, also across languages); in addition such variation is frequently seen as a concomitant of the way in which the given linguistic feature develops. None of these commentaries actually has much to do with randomness ; all seem to relate to identifiable complexes of correlation. The present article begins by exploring how the concept of randomness is to be understood and defined. It proceeds to explore the relationship of intra-individual linguistic variation to the recognizability of the connections between variables, to cross-varietal influence and to acquisitional trajectories. It probes the question of whether, in the light of the putatively explanatory factors for intra-individual variation considered, much room remains for its treatment as straightforwardly random.

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个体内L2变异的随机和非随机

当讨论语言使用中的个体内部差异时，它往往被认为没有太大的意义。（通常是默认的）承认变体彼此之间的关系是可识别的；个体内部变异通常归因于所讨论语言的不同变体之间的影响（在L2变异中，也跨语言）；另外，这种变化经常被认为是给定语言特征发展的方式的伴随。这些评论实际上与随机性无关; 所有这些似乎都与可识别的相关复杂性有关。本文首先探讨如何理解和定义随机性的概念。它继续探索个体内部语言变异与变量之间的联系的可识别性，跨品种的影响以及习得轨迹的关系。它探讨了这样一个问题，即根据所考虑的个体内部变异的解释性因素，是否仍有很大的空间可以将其视为直接随机的。