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- ↑ Crystal, David, and Quirk, Randolph (1964). Systems of Prosodic and Paralinguistic Features in English. The Hague: Mouton.
- ↑ Svartvik, Jan and Quirk, Randolph (1980) (eds.). A Corpus of English Conversation Lund: CWK Gleerup.
- ↑ Quirk, Randolph, Greenbaum, Sidney, Leech, Geoffrey and Svartvik, Jan (1985). A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language London: Longman.