Television dialogue the sitcom friends vs. natural conversation

Studies in Corpus Linguistics

Volumn 36, Issue , 2009, Pages 1-181

  Quaglio, Paulo ^a   Biber, Douglas ^b  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b NONE

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