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). The CANCODE corpus is a collection
of everyday informal spoken texts which provides very useful evidence of
significant structures, especially as they are found in spontaneous, unplanned,
conversational usage. Although the corpus has not been systematically coded for
phonetic features and features of intonation, this book has an accompanying
CD-ROM in which key sentences, conversational exchanges and patterns
of use can be listened to.
A bias towards written grammar means that in some cases appropriate terms
for describing particular features of spoken grammar are not available within
existing grammatical frameworks. In some cases new ways of describing language
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