Lexical entrainment in written discourse: Is experts' word use adapted to the addressee?

Discourse Processes

Volumn 45, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 497-518

  Jucks, Regina ^a   Becker, Bettina Maria ^b   Bromme, Rainer ^b  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

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EID: 57049131524     PISSN: 0163853X     EISSN: 15326950     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01638530802356547     Document Type: Article

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