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Syntactic Complexity and Political Ideology: A Study of Czechoslovak and Czech Presidential Speeches

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|Nov 2025

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jazcas-2025-0031 | Journal eISSN: 1338-4287 | Journal ISSN: 0021-5597
Language: English
Page range: 345 - 354
Published on: Nov 27, 2025
Published by: Slovak Academy of Sciences, Ľudovít Štúr Institute of Linguistics
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 2 issues per year

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