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The volume ‘The Linguistics of Speech’ is a description of the author’s own model of speech seen as a complex system, highlighting its main aspects: the continuum of linguistic behavior, extensive variation, the importance of regional/social proximity and differential frequency in social groups.
Reviewed by Dr. Paweł Szudarski, Kazimierz Wielki University: pawel.szudarski@op.pl
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Szudarski, P. (2014). Review of Kretzschmar, W.A. Jr. The Linguistics of Speech (2009) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. In: Romero-Trillo, J. (eds) Yearbook of Corpus Linguistics and Pragmatics 2014. Yearbook of Corpus Linguistics and Pragmatics, vol 2. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-06007-1_15
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