Tracking the incidence of formulaic expressions in everyday speech: Methods for classification and verification

Language and Communication

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 207-240

  Van Lancker Sidtis, Diana ^a,b,c   Rallon, Gail ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATHAN S KLINE INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHIATRIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Fixed expressions; Formulaic language; Models of language performance; Pragmatics of language; Text analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 2642552141     PISSN: 02715309     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.langcom.2004.02.003     Document Type: Article

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