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section_name: Sources
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  Most contemporary linguists work under the assumption that spoken data and signed data are more fundamental than written data. This is because
  
  Nonetheless, linguists agree that the study of written language can be worthwhile and valuable. For research that relies on corpus linguistics and computational linguistics, written language is often much more convenient for processing large amounts of linguistic data. Large corpora of spoken language are difficult to create and hard to find, and are typically transcribed and written. In addition, linguists have turned to text-based discourse occurring in various formats of computer-mediated communication as a viable site for linguistic inquiry.
  
  The study of writing systems themselves, graphemics, is, in any case, considered a branch of linguistics.