The Use of Phonetically Reduced Modals in Present-day English: A Corpus-Based Analysis
This paper examines the usage frequency of phonetically reduced modals (i.e. gonna, wanna, gotta) in Present-day English. It is assumed that in distinct sociolinguistic and discourse contexts, the use of reduced modals is dynamic. To collect the data, there are two corpora used in this study, Corpus...
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| Language: | English |
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Universitas Ahmad Dahlan
2019-07-01
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| Series: | English Language Teaching Educational Journal |
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| Online Access: | http://journal2.uad.ac.id/index.php/eltej/article/view/749 |