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STEPHENS, DEBORAH ANNE. "LINGUISTIC ASPECTS OF CODESWITCHING AMONG SPANISH/ENGLISH BILINGUAL CHILDREN (SOCIOLINGUISTICS, PSYCHOLINGUISTICS, APPLIED LINGUISTICS)." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1986. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/188166.

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Codeswitching between languages is a uniquely bilingual mode of communication. The purpose of this dissertation is to enhance the current body of knowledge dealing with the phenomenon by analysing samples of speech produced by twenty-six Spanish/English bilingual children ranging in age from eight to twelve. Methods of analysis include theoretical linguistics, sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, and educational linguistics. A discussion of relevant codeswitching research covering the past thirty years is presented. The data were collected during a reading study focusing on miscue analysis. Th

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Rosenberger, Lukas. "The Swiss English hypothesis the linguistics of English in Switzerland /." Tübingen Francke, 2006. http://d-nb.info/994607776/04.

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McGarry, Theresa, and J. Mwinyelle. "Adverbial Clauses and Gender in English and Spanish." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2014. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/6155.

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McLeod, Lilian M. "Semantic Categorization in Portuguese-English Bilinguals." FIU Digital Commons, 2015. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/1825.

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The main purpose of this study was to investigate the cross-linguistic interactions in the semantic categorization of late Portuguese-English bilinguals. The lexical items used in this study have a wider range of applications in one language and narrower in the other. Three types of categories were examined: classical, homophones, and radials. Late Portuguese-English bilinguals, as well as Portuguese and English monolinguals, were tested. After hearing a word, participants were asked to choose from a set of images, one that could be labelled as such. Analyses showed that when tested in English

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Omar, Shalina. "Being Japanese in English: The Social and Functional Role of English Loanwords in Japanese." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2015. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/620.

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This thesis investigates native speaker attitudes towards English loanwords in Japanese and the ways in which these loanwords are used. The imperialism and hegemony of English can often cause anger or worry for the preservation of the cultural identity of the borrowing language. However, the results from a 9-page sociolinguistic questionnaire suggest that English loanwords are overwhelmingly seen as useful and necessary and are generally associated with positive attitudes. Additionally, many native Japanese speakers feel that loanwords provide more options for expression, both functionally and

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Tong, Mei Yee. "An analysis of Chinese and English editorials." HKBU Institutional Repository, 2005. http://repository.hkbu.edu.hk/etd_ra/642.

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Joansson, Torour. "English loanwords in Faroese." Thesis, University of Aberdeen, 1996. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.244993.

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The thesis is an attempt at examining some hundred Faroese words which may be English loanwords considering form, pronunciation, and meaning. In the research efforts have been made to establish approximately when a loanword might have entered Faroese, based upon sound-changes which have taken place in the two languages over the past centuries. Thus the loanwords have been organised into five groups: Early loans, i.e. before 1600, Old loans, 1600-1800, Modern loans, 1800-1940, Recent loans, 1940-1995, and Other loans. All the loanwords have been discussed, also the indirect ones. Some attention

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McCully, Christopher B. "The phonology of English rhythm and metre, with special reference to Old English." Thesis, University of Manchester, 1988. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.257298.

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Cheung, Mei Ling Lisa. "Merging corpus linguistics and collaborative knowledge construction." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2009. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/464/.

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This study relates corpus-driven discourse analysis to the concept of collaborative knowledge construction. It demonstrates that the traditional synchronic perspective of meaning in corpus linguistics needs to be complemented by a diachronic dimension. The fundamental assumption underlying this work is that knowledge is understood not within the traditional epistemological framework but from a radical social epistemological perspective, and that incremental knowledge about an object of the discourse corresponds to continual change of meaning of the lexical item that stands for it. This stance

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Erard, Michael-Jean. "Inscribing language : writing and scientific representation in American linguistics /." Full text (PDF) from UMI/Dissertation Abstracts International, 2000. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/fullcit?p3004259.

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Baskaran, Lohanayahi. "Aspects of Malaysian English syntax." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 1987. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1317756/.

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The thesis is a description of some of the basic elements in the syntax of meso-lectal Malaysian English (M.E.), that are different from that of Standard British English (S.B.E. or B.E.). What used to be considered as errors or learner's strategies are not necessarily so and a detailed examination of such elements shows that there is a systematic and rigid patterning in the syntax as such. After a description of the general sociolinguistic setting and the emergence of the concept of institutionalized varieties of English, vis-a-vis the non-native varieties, the first chapter briefly sumarises

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El, Hassan El Tayeb El Mansour. "Graphological orientation in English and Arabic and its implications for transition to English medium education." Thesis, Aston University, 1986. http://publications.aston.ac.uk/14814/.

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Fear, William J. "The bilingual's lexicon : an investigation into the lexical level processing in Welsh-English/English-Welsh bilinguals." Thesis, Cardiff University, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.342566.

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Khan, Farhat. "Linguistic variation in Indian English : a sociolinguistic study." Thesis, University of Reading, 1989. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.328649.

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The present study responds to the longstanding need within the field of applied sociolinguistics for a better understanding of L2 variability. The study is concerned with the nature of phonological variation in the use of English by Indians. It is an attempt to use sociolinguistic methodology In examInIng a second language situation and to investigate: 1. Whether L2 variability is conditioned by linguistic constraints, and 2. Whether there is any social significance associated with L2 variability. The study is based on the data collected from 44 educated speakers of English in Aligarh (North I

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Wilson, P. "Ellipsis in English : Linguistic form and stylistic effect." Thesis, University of Essex, 1986. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.375732.

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Onraet, Lauren Alexandra. "English as a Lingua Franca and English in South Africa : distinctions and overlap." Thesis, Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/6545.

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Thesis (MA (General Linguistics))--University of Stellenbosch, 2011.<br>Bibliography<br>ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study investigates the prevalent, typical linguistic and discursive features of English as it is used as a shared medium of communication by speakers who do not share a first language in the Western Cape (i.e. as a lingua franca). These features were compared to those found in certain second-language varieties in South Africa, namely Black South African English, Cape Flats English and Afrikaans English. Fourteen female students from the University of Stellenbosch between th

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Finzel, Anna Magdalena. "English in the linguistic landscape of Hong Kong : a case study of shop signs and linguistic competence." Master's thesis, Universität Potsdam, 2012. http://opus.kobv.de/ubp/volltexte/2013/6412/.

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Especially for the last twenty years, the studies of Linguistic Landscapes (LLs) have been gaining the status as an autonomous linguistic discipline. The LL of a (mostly) geographically limited area – which consists of e.g. billboards, posters, shop signs, material for election campaigns, etc. – gives deep insights into the presence or absence of languages in that particular area. Thus, LL not only allows to conclude from the presence of a language to its dominance, but also from its absence to the oppression of minorities, above all in areas where minority languages should – demographically s

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Howe, Darin M. "Negation in early African American English." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1995. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp05/mq24075.pdf.

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Styles, Tania. "Old English semantics : problems of evidence." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.285515.

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Rosta, Andrew. "English syntax and word grammar theory." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.288690.

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Walton, Alan Leslie. "The pragmatics of English modal verbs." Thesis, Boston Spa, U.K. : British Library Document Supply Centre, 1988. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?did=1&uin=uk.bl.ethos.283842.

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Manga, Louise. "The syntax of adverbs in English." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/7948.

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In this thesis I use the Principles and Parameters model of generative grammar to explain the surface distribution of adverbs in English. Using the current parameters and principals assumed for UG plus the rule of move $\alpha,$ I explain the distribution of both sentential and VP-adverbs. I propose that adverbs are predicates subcategorizing for their arguments at D-S. Like other predicates in English, adverbs are generated on the right of their subjects. Certain adverbs subcategorize for two arguments while other adverbs subcategorize for one argument. The selectional restrictions of the adv

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McKay, David Andrew. "Metrical theory and English verse." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/10777.

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Leung, Wong Yuen-ching Susan. "Mother tongue job-related oral competency technical presentation training effectiveness through applied linguistics." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1999. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B20971539.

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Lintz, Jana. "A Positive Look at the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis; How this Effect Affects English." University of Toledo Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=uthonors1355495583.

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McPherson, Stuart. "Studies in early English element order, with special reference to the early Middle English Lambeth Homillies." Thesis, Boston Spa, U.K. : British Library Document Supply Centre, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?did=1&uin=uk.bl.ethos.388541.

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Woods, Nicola J. "Sociolinguistic patterns in English pitch and intonation." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1992. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.334882.

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Lataiwish, Muftah S. "An analysis of literary translation Arabic/English." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 1995. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.288057.

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McMahon, April M. S. "Constraining lexical phonology : evidence from English vowels." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 1989. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.236336.

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Creaney, Norman. "An incremental approach to scoping in English." Thesis, Queen's University Belfast, 1994. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.241387.

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Abdelmoumene, N. "Sentential complementation in French, English and Arabic." Thesis, University of Essex, 1988. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.384488.

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Rupp, Laura Marie. "Aspects of the syntax of English imperatives." Thesis, University of Essex, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.284607.

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Suphi, Menekșe Sezin. "Non-linear analyses in English historical phonology." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 1985. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/18646.

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Giaber, Jamal Mohamed. "Translating derivational suffixes in linguistics terminology from English into Arabic." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/22243.

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Affixes have been treated globally without adequate regard to their use in the discipline, and without proper consideration of translation problems. What is actually needed is a thorough treatment of affixes from the point view of terminological translation, and in the light of Arabic word-formation devices. This study is a contribution in this respect. It considers the translation of ten suffixes in linguistics terminology from English into Arabic. These suffixes are: -able, -ization, -lect, -eme, -nym, -graph, -graphy, -gram, -logy and -ics. In discussing the issues related to translating th

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Flagg, Elissa Jill 1974. "Interface issues in the English imperative." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/8156.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Linguistics and Philosophy, 2002.<br>"September 2002."<br>Includes bibliographical references (leaves 155-159).<br>Two puzzles in the syntax of the English imperative are treated here as consequences of interface conditions. The first concerns the inability of certain predicates to take an overt subject in the imperative. The second concerns the ungrammaticality of certain negative and emphatic imperatives with an overt subject. The investigation yields a deeper understanding of the role of LF and PF ineffability in the grammar.

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Kearns, Katherine Susan. "The semantics of the English progressive." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/13730.

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Garnier, Mélodie. "English phrasal verbs : usage, knowledge, acquisition." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2016. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/38662/.

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Formulaic language constitutes an essential part of English vocabulary and is necessary for performing a wide range of communicative functions, but knowledge and acquisition of formulaic sequences is typically found to be lacking and problematic for L2 learners. Whilst much research has been carried out on formulaic sequences such as idioms and collocations, comparatively little has been done on phrasal verbs which are nonetheless commonly perceived as one of the most challenging aspects of English vocabulary. This thesis attempts to contribute to filling this gap by exploring the usage, knowl

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McGarry, Theresa, and J. Mwinyelle. "Adverbial Clause Usage and Gender in English, Spanish, and French." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2016. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/6154.

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This study examines adverbial clause usage by women and men in three contexts: (1) single-gender and mixed-gender meetings of a US social club, (2) single-gender and mixed gender dyads speaking Ecuadorean Spanish, and (3) French speakers in informal interviews. The English results generally support past findings that women tend to use adverbial clauses to weaken their expressed commitments to the propositions they express, while men tend to use more of the clauses that strengthen the expressed commitments. However, the situation affects the specific clause types used, and the English results a

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Mansfield, Lia Vittoria DeMarco. "A CVG Approach to Verp-Particle Constructions in English." The Ohio State University, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1284997567.

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Huang, Xiaocong. "Stylistic approaches to literary translation : with particular reference to English-Chinese and Chinese-English translation." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2011. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/2949/.

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This thesis reports a study applying stylistics in the analysis and assessment of literary translation, with specific reference to translations between English and Chinese. It focuses on how to maintain the original style in the translation – in terms of techniques or linguistic features in the literary texts and their correspondent functions – and on how to assess the style of the individual translation and translator as measured by quantitative data derived from corpus linguistic analyses. The thesis starts with an overview of the specific challenges of literary translation and the value of

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Godby, Carol Jean. "A Computational Study of Lexicalized Noun Phrases in English." The Ohio State University, 2002. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1017343683.

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Melnick, Robin. "Plurality cues and non-agreement in English existentials." Thesis, San Jose State University, 2013. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1541541.

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<p> This paper furthers the discussion of variable agreement in English existential constructions. Previous studies across dialects have shown that <i>there </i>+<i>be</i> with a plural notional post-copular subject is frequently realized with contracted singular agreement, for example, "There's many articles on this topic." Prior work in building probabilistic models for predicting the presence of agreement or non-agreement in any given such <sub> there</sub>+<i>be</i> sentential context has investigated a variety of factors with potential influence on this variation, but the present study pr

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Drozd, Kenneth Francis. "A unification categorial grammar of child English negation." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/186381.

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This dissertation is a developmental investigation of early child English negative constructions using 'no' and 'not' in an interpreted Unification Categorial Grammar (UCG). We ask (1) What is the developmental relationship between adult and child negative utterances? (2) What is the optimal characterization of the developmental correspondence between formal grammatical negative structures and their interpretive uses? and (3) How can the temporal dynamics of this developmental correspondence between form and use be rationally accounted for? A discourse analysis of child English negation reveal

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Ohno, Kazutoshi. "The interpretation of focalizers in Japanese and English." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/289902.

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This dissertation investigates how interpretations are differentiated between and within Japanese focalizers (toritate-joshi) and also their English counterparts. There are four main proposals in this thesis. First, I propose that focalizer interactions must be analyzed independently from general focus interactions. The ordinary assumptions made for 'focus' (e.g. 'new information', binary distinction against 'topic', etc.) do not capture focalizer interactions accurately, and raise serious questions such as that of 'second occurrence' (Partee 1991). This thesis illustrates how focalizer intera

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Ludani, Malele Ma. "Contrastive analysis of English, French and Kikongo interrogatives." Thesis, Bangor University, 1990. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.257643.

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Ahn, Mikyung. "The phonological interlanguage of Korean learners of English." Thesis, Cardiff University, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.286170.

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Barbu, CaÌŒtaÌŒlina. "Bilingual pronoun resolution : experiments in English and French." Thesis, University of Wolverhampton, 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.275818.

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Runsewe, O. I. "Communication in general Nigerian English : An intonational study." Thesis, University of Essex, 1986. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.375724.

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Black, Gladys Elizabeth. "Educational drama, regional dialect & spoken standard English." Thesis, University of Ulster, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.390152.

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TrenkicÌ, Danijela. "The acquisition of English articles by Serbian speakers." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.275438.

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