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Salience-simplification strategy for markedness of causal subordinators: “Because” and “since” in argumentative essays

Jiajin Xu, +1 more
- 01 Feb 2022 - 
- Vol. 272, pp 103256-103256
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The authors explored contextual factors around these two causal markers, incorporating the effective factors in multifactorial models to measure their weights in discriminating between these two markers, and examined the different weights borne by individual factors from the perspective of markedness correspondence strategies.
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