It's not or isn't it? Using large corpora to determine the influences on contraction strategies

Language Variation and Change

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 79-118

  Yaeger Dror, Malcah ^a   Hall Lew, Lauren ^a   Deckert, Sharon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

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EID: 84937386314     PISSN: 09543945     EISSN: 14698021     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0954394502141044     Document Type: Article

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