Measuring syntactic complexity in spontaneous spoken Swedish

Language and Speech

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 227-245

  Roll, Mikael ^a   Frid, Johan ^a   Horne, Merle ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Function words; Hesitation disfluency; Spontaneous speech; Syntactic complexity

Indexed keywords

EID: 34547148350     PISSN: 00238309     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/00238309070500020301     Document Type: Article

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