The Prosody of Formulaic Sequences: A Corpus and Discourse Approach

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The Prosody of Formulaic Sequences: A Corpus and Discourse ApproachTo apply the same approaches to analysing spoken and written formulaic language is problematic; to do so masks the fact that the contextual meaning of spoken formulaic language is encoded, to a large extent, in its prosody. In The Prosody of Formulaic Sequences, Phoebe Lin offers a new perspective on formulaic language, arguing that while past research often treats formulaic language as a lexical phenomenon, the phonological aspect of it is a more

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