Universal #1789
Legacy number: 1789
| Number | 1784 |
| Original | 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. |
| Standardized | 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 |
| Source | Östman 1989 |
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