Abstract
This chapter discusses the theory and experiments made on locating the frontier between social and psychological factors in linguistic variation. There is abundant evidence in the psycholinguistic literature that young children find it difficult to repeat linguistic structures that are not in their grammars. It was discovered that this was true of many speakers of the Black English vernacular in their adolescent years. The chapter presents the individual variation in the acquisition of the philadelphia dialect and the categorical discrimination. In the various studies of the speech community, strong social determination of variation in linguistic behaviour is found. The deeper penetration of the psychological dimensions that underlie the approximation to individual differences will be an important step towards the understanding of the mechanism of language learning.
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