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Phonology

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The study of patterns and systems of sounds in particular languages

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Phoneme vs Syllable

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The smallest unit of sound in a language which combine to form a syllable.

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How many phonemes are there in the English language

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44

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Orthography

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The relationship between the sounds of spoken English and the way that we write

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Split diagraph

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Where two vowels combine to form one sound but are separated by a consonant

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Prosody

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Non-verbal aspects of speech such as tone, intonation and stress which can vary the semantics of an utterance

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Elision

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The way sounds are omitted in speech

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Ellison

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The way that sounds are omitted in speech

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Aural imagery

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Prosody in text; the ability of sound to create representations in people’s minds e.g aliiteration, assonance, sibilance and onomatopoeia

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Eye dialect

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The term used to describe the non-standard spelling and punctuation used by some writers to give the impression of a regional variety of speech

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Parallelisms

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Features that help to create rhythm through the successive repetition of similar phrases or sentence structures

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Accent

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A distinctive way of pronouncing a language, especially one associated with a particular location

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Grammar

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A whole system and structure of a language usually consisting of syntax and morphology

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Noun

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A naming word used to describe people, places and objects

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Proper noun

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Naming words used for specific things such as people or places

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Common noun

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Nouns used for everyday objects

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Abstract noun

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Nouns used to describe intangible objects

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Concrete noun

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Nouns to describe tangible objects

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Collective nouns

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Nouns used to group objects such as a school of fish

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Count (enumerators) and non-count (mass) nouns

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Enumerators can be counted while mass nouns cannot be counted

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Adjectives (comps and supes)

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They are used to describe objects. They can be used to make comparisons with comparatives and superlatives

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Attributive and Predictive adjectives

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Attributives are pre-modifying while predicatives are post-modifying

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Pronouns

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Words used instead of nouns to avoid repetition

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Personal pronouns

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They replace the subject and object of the sentence

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Possessive pronouns

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They show possession by preceding nouns

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Reflexive pronouns

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They indicate that the object of the verb is the same as the subject e.g yourself

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Demonstrative pronouns

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They have a sense of pointing out or highlighting something such as that, those (do not precede a noun)

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Indefinite pronouns

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They are pronouns that do not refer to specific persons or things such as anything or anyone

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Relative pronouns

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They act as linking words in a sentence, referring to other nouns e.g who, whom

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Interrogative prnouns

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They are used to ask questions e.g who, what, how

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Conjunctions

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They join together different parts of a sentence

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Coordinating/subordinating conjunctions

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They connect sentences of equal value/they connect a subordinate clase to a main clause

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Prepositions

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They usually indicate how one thing is related to another or how a noun is related to something else relating to position, direction and tiime.

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Determines and the five types

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They precede nouns and refer to them directly.
Definite articles refer to specific objects e.g the.
Indefinite articles refer to everyday object e.g a, an.
Possessive determiners show possessions e.g their, her
Demonstrative determiners highlight something (they precede noun) e.g that
Quantifiers show quantity and can be general (many, few) or specific (one or two)

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Verbs

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Doing words such as do, jump

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Main verbs and the two types

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Verbs that express the main meaning of a sentence or clause.
They are divided into dynamic and stative verbs. Dynamic verbs are physical actions such as play, jump. Stative vers are mental actions or states such a think. Some verbs can be both

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Auxiliary Verbs and the two types

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Helping verbs that often go before main verbs.
They are divided into primary and modal verbs. Primary verbs are be, have and do (despite the conjugation) and Modal verbs are only ever used with main verbs such as can, could, shall, should.

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Modalities of modal verbs

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Epistemic Modality which expresses possibility such as could or might.
Deontic Modality which expresses obligation sush as will and must

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Active vs Passive Voice

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Active voice is when the object performing an action is emphasized while passive voice is when the action is emphasized

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Adverbs

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They give information about verbs or how verbs are done.

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Transitive vs Intransitive verb phrases

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A verb phrase that has an object vs one that does not

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Finite verbs

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Verbs that can occur alone in a sentence, conjugated or not such as jumps, plays etc

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Infinite verbs and the three types

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Verbs that are used as nouns, adverbs and adjectives as they do not talk about the action being performed. These include; gerunds (-ing words), infinitives and participles (words that look like verbs but act as adjectives eg sleeping dogs, cooked food)

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The six types of adverbs

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Adverb of manner: how an action is done eg quickly
Adverb of place: where an action takes place e.g here
Adverb of time: when an action is done e.g tomorrow
Adverb of duration: how long an actonn takes place e.g forever
Adverb of degree: to what extent an action is done e.g completely
Adverb of frequency: how often an action is done e.g sometimes

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Complement

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A group of words that give more information about the subject

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Phrase

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A group of words which do not contain a main verb

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Clause

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A group of words that do contain a main verb

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Noun phrase

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A phrase with a noun as a headword

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Headword

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The main focus of a phrase or clase that is essential to the core meaning

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Verb phrase

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A phrase with a verb as the headword

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Pre-modifier

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A word that goes before the head noun to either add detail or clarify some aspect of it

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Adverbial phrase

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A phrase with an adverb as the headword

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Prepositional phrase

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A phrase with a preposition as the headword

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Infinitive phrase

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A phrase with an infinitive as the headword

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Subject

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The doer of an action in a sentence

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Object

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The receiver of an action in a sentence

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Minor sentence

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A sentence with three words or less, often missing a main verb or subject

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Compound sentence

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A sentence containing two main clauses connected by a coordinating conjuction

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Complex sentence

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A sentence containing at least one main clause and one subordinate clause connected by a subordinating clause

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Four moods of a sentence

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A declarative makes a statement
An Imperative gives a command
An interrogative asks a question
An exclamative expresses surprise or shock

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Main clause

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A clause that can form a complete sentence standing alone

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Subordinating clause

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A clause, introduced by a conjunction that forms part of and is dependent on the main clause

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Morphology

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The study of the structure of words

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Morpheme

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The smallest unit of a word that expresses meaning or served as a grammatical function

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Root word

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The base form of a word without affixation

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Affix

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Morpheme added to the beginning (prefix) or end (suffix) of a word. The process is called affixation

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Free morpheme

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A Morpheme that can stand alone as a word

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Bound morpheme

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A Morpheme that cannot stand alone as a word, usually affixes

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Inflectional affix

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Serves a grammatical purpose such as changing the tense e.g jump to jumped

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Derivational affix

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Creates a new word e.g thought to thoughtless

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Shared knowledge

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The information, beliefs, understandings that are commonly held by a group of individuals

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Implication or implied meaning or implicature

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Extra layers of meaning that is being implied without it being said out loud

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Inference

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A conclusion reached based on the basis of evidence and reasoning

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Schema

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Packing of information gained through experience that help interpreting information quickly

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What are Grice’s maxims?

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They describe the rules followed by people in a conversation. They include: quality (whether or not the truth is being told), quantity (whether enough or too much information is being told), relevance (staying relevant to the topic) and manner (being clear, avoiding ambiguity)

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Breaking Grice’s maxims is referred to as

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Violating or flouting them, as opposed to adhering to them.
Violating them is done surreptitiously so the others are unaware that a maxim has been broken
Flouting them is more common and more acceptable

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What is our face and who created the theory of face?

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Our face is the image that we present to others (Goffman)

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What is a face-threatening act?

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Rejecting the face that someone presents to us, e.g accusing them of insincerity or turning back on them

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Facework

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Maintaining the status of participants

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Who developed the Politeness Theory?

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Brown and Levinson

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Types of face and types of politeness

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Positive face; their self-esteem, need to feel liked and appreciated by others. This could include taking people feel comfortable like by referring to each other by their first name
Positive politeness; appeals to the negative face by making them feel good about themselves
Negative face; freedom of speech; desire to protect their personal rights
Negative politeness: appeals to a negative gave by making them feel like they are not being imposed on or taken advantage of

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Saving face

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A strategy to avoid humiliation or embarrassment by maintaining dignity and saving someone’s reputation by concealing actions that may be damaging to our self-image

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Types of face-threatening acts

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Verbal (using words or language)
Paraverbal (using tone or inflexion)
Non-verbal (facial expressions or body language)
You can have positive or negative face-threatening acts

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Politeness strategies

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Bald-on record: does not to reduce a fact-threatening act due to a sense of urgency by getting straight to the point without any additional language to soften the message e.g Watch out!

Positive politeness: reduces threat to listener’s positive face by finding common ground, juxtaposing critism with compliments, telling jokes and using statements of friendship such as names

Negative politeness: avoiding imposition on the listener to avoid feelings of awkwardness and embarrassment bye being indirect and hedging, minimizing the opposition or being apologetic

Off-record: the speakers’ intentions are implied and the listener has to interpret them, relying heavily on pragmatics. Here, the speaker could be seen as kind for not imposing and the listener kind for understanding

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Who proposed and what is the Politeness principle?

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Robin Lakoff; governs conversational interaction by not imposing, giving options and making the receiver feel good

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