Despite a widespread assumption that style is personal, there is evidence that departures from idiomatic norms also may be situational in origin, as suggested by this study of the similar uses of uncommon language behaviors in the recently televised Rotunda eulogies.
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Carpenter et al. (1971) studied this question.
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