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Gilljam, D. 2016. Structure and stability of ecological networks – The role of dynamic dimensionality and species variability in resource use. " Everything is both simpler than we can imagine, and more complicated than we can conceive. " Johan Wolfgang von Goethe " Big fish eat little fish " Enok Gilljam (2016)

Human language is characterized by variability in that the way in which language is used varies depending, for example, on facts about the identity of the speaker or author, the social context, and surrounding linguistic material. Variability poses formidable challenges to the systems underlying language comprehension, which are known to exploit statistical contingencies in the input to overcom...

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