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Peer reviewedTagliamonte, Sali; Hudson, Rachel – Journal of Sociolinguistics, 1999
Studies the quotative system of contemporary British and Canadian youth. Multivariate analysis of nearly 1300 quotative verbs demonstrates that the innovative form "be like" is productive in both Canada and Britain. Traditional quotatives such as "say,""go,""think" are used according to somewhat different…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Computational Linguistics, Foreign Countries, Language Patterns
