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Abstract:
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This is the PDF file of a presentation given.
Doing corpus work on spoken Liverpool English (Scouse) it became apparent that reference to a third party or third parties is a prominent feature of casual speech. This presentation tries to look in how far Scouse use diverges from general UK use (as represented by the Macmillan Bloomsbury corpus) and whether that can be seen as a specific dialect feature.
A follow-up to this discussion would be, in how far Liverpool language users are lexically primed to use descriptors in this particular way.
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