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Does speaker role affect the choice of epistemic adverbials in L2 speech?: evidence from the Trinity Lancaster Corpus

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Does speaker role affect the choice of epistemic adverbials in L2 speech? evidence from the Trinity Lancaster Corpus. / Gablasova, Dana; Brezina, Vaclav.
Yearbook of Corpus Linguistics and Pragmatics 2015. ed. / Jesús Romero-Trillo. Vol. 3 Springer, 2015. p. 117-136 (Yearbook of Corpus Linguistics and Pragmatics ; Vol. 3).

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Gablasova, D & Brezina, V 2015, Does speaker role affect the choice of epistemic adverbials in L2 speech? evidence from the Trinity Lancaster Corpus. in J Romero-Trillo (ed.), Yearbook of Corpus Linguistics and Pragmatics 2015. vol. 3, Yearbook of Corpus Linguistics and Pragmatics , vol. 3, Springer, pp. 117-136. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-17948-3_6

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Gablasova, D., & Brezina, V. (2015). Does speaker role affect the choice of epistemic adverbials in L2 speech? evidence from the Trinity Lancaster Corpus. In J. Romero-Trillo (Ed.), Yearbook of Corpus Linguistics and Pragmatics 2015 (Vol. 3, pp. 117-136). (Yearbook of Corpus Linguistics and Pragmatics ; Vol. 3). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-17948-3_6

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Gablasova D, Brezina V. Does speaker role affect the choice of epistemic adverbials in L2 speech? evidence from the Trinity Lancaster Corpus. In Romero-Trillo J, editor, Yearbook of Corpus Linguistics and Pragmatics 2015. Vol. 3. Springer. 2015. p. 117-136. (Yearbook of Corpus Linguistics and Pragmatics ). doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-17948-3_6

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Gablasova, Dana ; Brezina, Vaclav. / Does speaker role affect the choice of epistemic adverbials in L2 speech? evidence from the Trinity Lancaster Corpus. Yearbook of Corpus Linguistics and Pragmatics 2015. editor / Jesús Romero-Trillo. Vol. 3 Springer, 2015. pp. 117-136 (Yearbook of Corpus Linguistics and Pragmatics ).

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