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Peer reviewedKoike, Dale April – Hispania, 1985
Presents data that suggest that three factors--social variables, speech register, and linguistic variables--influence the choice of grammatical structure in Brazilian Portuguese where options exist to express the same idea. Examines the range of options used in responses that indicate general patterns of linguistic structures related to particular…
Descriptors: Grammar, Language Styles, Phrase Structure, Portuguese
