Familiarity, information flow, and linguistic form

Fenk-Oczlon, Gertraud

doi:10.1075/tsl.45.22fen

In:Frequency and the Emergence of Linguistic Structure
Edited by Joan L. Bybee and Paul J. Hopper
[Typological Studies in Language 45] 2001
► pp. 431–448

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Familiarity, information flow, and linguistic form

Gertraud Fenk-Oczlon

Published online: 15 October 2001

https://doi.org/10.1075/tsl.45.22fen

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