Reference, Centers, and Transitions in Spoken Spanish

Reference: Interdisciplinary Perspectives

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Taboada, Maite ^a  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Centering theory; Corpus analysis; Referring expression; Spanish; Spoken language

Indexed keywords

EID: 84920751023     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195331639.003.0008     Document Type: Chapter

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