The Particle Strategy: The more short, particle-like words a sentence contains, the more likely it is to be classified as belonging to a more informal register.
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The Particle Strategy: The more short, particle-like words a sentence contains, the more likely it is to be classified as belonging to a more informal register.
Keywords
particle, length, formality, register
Domain
syntax, pragmatics
Type
implication
Status
achronic
Quality
statistical
Basis
experiment on 194 students, native speakers of Finnish and Swedish, in Östman 1989
