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Publication details [#44133]

Pillai, Stefanie. 2006. Patterns of repeats in Malaysian English. Multilingua 25 (1/2) : 101–113.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

function word | hesitation | repair | repeating

Language as a subject

English, Malaysian

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter

Journal WWW

www.degruyter.com/journal/key/MULT/html

Annotation

This paper examines repeats' patterns in Malaysian English. Preferred patterns of use appear to be the frequent repetition of function words. The results also show how repeats are employed both as repair mechanism and hesitation device.