Diagnostics of age-graded linguistic behaviour: The case of the quotative system

Journal of Sociolinguistics

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 3-30

  Buchstaller, Isabelle ^a,b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adolescent trends; Age grading; Apparent time; Change in progress; Quotatives

Indexed keywords

EID: 33646689056     PISSN: 13606441     EISSN: 14679841     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1360-6441.2006.00315.x     Document Type: Article

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