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On Spoken French: An Ashby Reader
William J. Ashby
[Studies in Language Companion Series 226] 2023
► pp. 389–402

French presentational structures

| University of California, Santa Barbara
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Methodology
  • 3.Results
  • 4.Conclusion
  • Notes
  • References
  • Appendix
Published online: 2 March 2023
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https://doi.org/10.1075/slcs.226.c28
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