TV Talk Too Terse

Abstract

It must have been a ghastly job but it had to be done: Michael Liberman counted all the words in Mork and Mindy. And in seven other top children's TV shows. The results show how impoverished the language is.

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Liberman, M. (1986). TV Talk Too Terse. Set: Research Information for Teachers, 1. https://doi.org/10.18296/set.1177
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