Language users as creatures of habit: A corpus-based analysis of persistence in spoken English

Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 113-150

  Szmrecsanyi, Benedikt ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

alternations; Priming; Repetition; Uersistence; Variation

Indexed keywords

EID: 33748791707     PISSN: 16137027     EISSN: 16137035     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/cllt.2005.1.1.113     Document Type: Article

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