Exploring developmental patterns of adverbial linkers in children’s writing: Variation across Disciplines, Text Types and Year Group
Phil Durrant, Erdem Akbaş, Elif Barbaros, & Arwa Aldawood
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2. Accessing the corpus
To access the Growth in Grammar corpus used in this research, please complete the terms of use form here.
3. Coding Guidance
The full coding document used in this research can be accessed here.
4. Disciplinary Linkers
Tables showing details of disciplinary distinctive linkers can be accessed here.
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