Variation and Change in the Use of Hesitation Markers in Germanic Languages

Language Dynamics and Change

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 199-234

  Wieling, Martijn ^a   Grieve, Jack ^b   Bouma, Gosse ^a   Fruehwald, Josef ^c   Coleman, John ^d   Liberman, Mark ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b ASTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

corpus linguistics; crosslinguistic change; hesitation markers; language change

Indexed keywords

EID: 84997541770     PISSN: 22105824     EISSN: 22105832     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/22105832-00602001     Document Type: Article

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