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Response to Abbott

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 February 2026

Gregory Ward  and
Betty J. Birner
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Language , Volume 73 , Issue 1 , March 1997 , pp. 109 - 112
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Copyright © 1997 Linguistic Society of America

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