At the intersection of regional and social dialects: The case of like + past participle in American English

American Speech

Volumn 77, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 32-66

  Murray, Thomas E ^a   Simon, Beth Lee ^a  

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DOI: 10.1215/00031283-77-1-32     Document Type: Article

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