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Publication details [#36941]

Gibbs, Raymond W. Jr. and Nancy S. McCarrell. 1990. Why boys will be boys and girls will be girls: Understanding colloquial tautologies. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research 19 (2) : 125–145.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
content1 | context | interpretation | syntactic process | tautology
Place, Publisher
Plenum Press
ISBN
0090-6905
Journal WWW
www.kluweronline.com/

Annotation

This study examines the role played by context, syntactic form and lexical content in the understanding of nominal tautologies.