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• To determine the frequency of it-clefts in US English, US Spanish, and non-US Spanish.

• To determine the frequency with which it-clefts, in each of the three language varieties, serve the following discourse functions:

  • (1) topic-launching

  • (2) topic-linking

  • (3) summative

  • (4) contrastive