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Switch attention (aka switch reference) in South American temporal clauses: facilitating oral transmission

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2012
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Van Gijn, R. (2012). Switch attention (aka switch reference) in South American temporal clauses: facilitating oral transmission. Linguistic Discovery, 10, 112–127. http://journals.dartmouth.edu/cgi-bin/WebObjects/Journals.woa/1/xmlpage/1/article/407?htmlAlways=yes

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Cultures without a written tradition depend entirely on the oral channel to transmit sometimes highly complex information. It is therefore not surprising that in the languages of such cultures linguistic devices evolve that enhance textual coherence, and thus comprehension. These devices should ideally also be economical in terms of morphosyntactic complexity in order to facilitate both production and comprehension. In this paper, I will argue that switch-attention (a term preferred over the traditional switch-reference) systems in te

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  • Van Gijn, Rik

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10

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112

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127

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1537-0852

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Van Gijn, R. (2012). Switch attention (aka switch reference) in South American temporal clauses: facilitating oral transmission. Linguistic Discovery, 10, 112–127. http://journals.dartmouth.edu/cgi-bin/WebObjects/Journals.woa/1/xmlpage/1/article/407?htmlAlways=yes

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