The most frequently used spoken American English idioms: A corpus analysis and its implications

TESOL Quarterly

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 671-700

  Liu, Dilin ^a  

^a OKLAHOMA CITY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 33947427545     PISSN: 00398322     EISSN: 15457249     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3588217     Document Type: Article

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