Sexuality in context: Variation and the sociolinguistic perception of identity

Language in Society

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 533-554

  Levon, Erez ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Contextualization; Perception; Prosody; Sexuality and gender

Indexed keywords

EID: 34547937555     PISSN: 00474045     EISSN: 14698013     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0047404507070431     Document Type: Article

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