Variable omission of ne in real-time French chat: A corpus-driven comparison of educational and non-educational contexts

Canadian Modern Language Review

Volumn 65, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 413-440

  Van Compernolle, Rémi A ^a   Williams, Lawrence ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Computer mediated communication; French as a second foreign language; Language variation; Sociolinguistic competence; Verbal negation

Indexed keywords

EID: 62349112246     PISSN: 00084506     EISSN: 17101131     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3138/cmlr.65.3.413     Document Type: Article

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