Central, in one view, when people develop their native language. They may then want to use some noun in the plural. But as the result of it the language may change, with - s generalized to nouns that did not previously have it.
Abductive change is change due, it is claimed, to abduction.
Abduction as a process of reasoning was distinguished by Peirce, who stressed its role in human life in general. 1. deduction The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Linguistics, Oxford University Press 2. The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Linguistics, Oxford University Press 3. All rights reserved.