Morphosyntactic and phonological constraints on negative particle variation in French-language chat discourse

Language Variation and Change

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 317-339

  Van Compernolle, Rémi A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS   (United States)

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EID: 49949091629     PISSN: 09543945     EISSN: 14698021     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0954394508000112     Document Type: Article

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