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Although production and perception are historically treated as distinct processes, data from both domains is used as foundation for linguistic theories. The recent studies, however, consider production and perception to be similar not only in terms of representations that they operate with, but also in terms of cognitive mechanisms that they involve ([1], [2]). A challenge that arises when one tries to align parsing and generating processes is the mismatch between production data and acceptability judgements: either produced constructions are judged to be unacceptable, or constructions that are highly acceptable are not produced (e.g. [3], [4]). In this paper, we investigate how variation can be manifested in these two domains of speech and present a set of experiments that aim at linking production frequencies and acceptability ratings. In particular, we examine three phenomena in Russian that demonstrate intralingual variability. For each phenomenon we conducted production and acceptability judgement experiments with the same speaker sample. We analyzed consistency of each respondent by checking whether differences in acceptability ratings could be predicted by frequencies of occurrence and obtained the following results. First, throughout the three pairs of experiments we observe that the respondents are inconsistent in production and perception. Second, in production experiments respondents demonstrate more permissibility. Third, the mismatch between production and perception can indicate the current status of the variance. In case of variation, inconsistency from respondents can be expected. The most remarkable result is that the types of this inconsistency differ, which means that the variance can be characterized from this point of view. In the talk we plan to discuss what implications our findings have for specifying the language change and how our results can be extrapolated to other language domains that do not exhibit such variability. References [1] Momma, S., & Phillips, C. (2018). The relationship between parsing and generation. Annual Review of Linguistics, 4, 233-254. [2] Pickering, M. J., & Garrod, S. (2013). An integrated theory of language production and comprehension. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 36(4), 329-347. [3] Ferreira, F., & Swets, B. (2005). The production and comprehension of resumptive pronouns in relative clause "island" contexts. Twenty-first century psycholinguistics: Four cornerstones, 263- 278. [4] Adli, A. (2011). On the relation between acceptability and frequency. Rinke, Esther/Kupisch, Tanja (Hg.), The development of grammar: language acquisition and diachronic change. Amsterdam/New York: Benjamins, 383-404.