MIAMI - Zeledon11
Instances of little

221ANTand I can see my breath moving the end of the gun little by little .
  andand.CONJ II.PRON.SUB.1S cancan.V.1S.PRES seesee.V.INFIN mymy.ADJ.POSS.1S breathbreath.N.SG movingmove.V.PRESPART thethe.DET.DEF endend.N.SG ofof.PREP thethe.DET.DEF gungun.N.SG littlelittle.ADJ byby.PREP littlelittle.ADJ .
  
221ANTand I can see my breath moving the end of the gun little by little .
  andand.CONJ II.PRON.SUB.1S cancan.V.1S.PRES seesee.V.INFIN mymy.ADJ.POSS.1S breathbreath.N.SG movingmove.V.PRESPART thethe.DET.DEF endend.N.SG ofof.PREP thethe.DET.DEF gungun.N.SG littlelittle.ADJ byby.PREP littlelittle.ADJ .
  
265ANTyour little (.) cube ?
  youryour.ADJ.POSS.2SP littlelittle.ADJ cubecube.N.SG ?
  
273SEA<like I got a> [/] like I got a little nervous you know .
  likelike.CONJ II.PRON.SUB.1S gotgot.V.PAST aa.DET.INDEF likelike.CONJ II.PRON.SUB.1S gotgot.V.PAST aa.DET.INDEF littlelittle.ADJ nervousnervous.ADJ youyou.PRON.SUB.2SP knowknow.V.2SP.PRES .
  
427ANTbecause (.) English does allow you to be a little ambiguous which means you can have so many more double meanings at times .
  becausebecause.CONJ EnglishEnglish.N.SG doesdoes.N.SG allowallow.N.SG youyou.PRON.SUB.2SP toto.PREP bebe.V.INFIN aa.DET.INDEF littlelittle.ADJ ambiguousambiguous.ADJ whichwhich.REL meansmeans.N.SG.[or].mean.SV.INFIN+PV youyou.PRON.SUB.2SP cancan.V.2SP.PRES havehave.V.INFIN soso.ADV manymany.ADJ moremore.ADV doubledouble.ADJ meaningsunk atat.PREP timestime.N.PL .
  
434ANTin that case Spanish would be (.) a little better but it's longer .
  inin.PREP thatthat.DEM.FAR casecase.N.SG SpanishSpanish.N.SG wouldbe.V.123SP.COND bebe.SV.INFIN aa.DET.INDEF littlelittle.ADJ betterbetter.ADJ butbut.CONJ it'sit.PRON.SUB.3S+BE.V.3S.PRES longerlong.ADJ.COMP .
  
435ANTlittle things like that really lengthen an article .
  littlelittle.ADJ thingsthing.N.PL likelike.CONJ.[or].like.V.3P.PRES thatthat.DEM.FAR reallyreal.ADJ+ADV lengthenlengthen.SV.INFIN anan.DET.INDEF articlearticle.N.SG .
  
535ANTyou a little less nervous now ?
  youyou.PRON.SUB.2SP aa.DET.INDEF littlelittle.ADJ lessless.ADV nervousnervous.ADJ nownow.ADV ?
  
536SEAa little bit xxx .
  aa.DET.INDEF littlelittle.ADJ bitbit.N.SG .
  
838ANT+" I was standing in three but a little bit more to the right .
  II.PRON.SUB.1S waswas.V.13S.PAST standingstand.V.PRESPART inin.PREP threethree.NUM butbut.CONJ aa.DET.INDEF littlelittle.ADJ bitbit.N.SG moremore.ADV toto.PREP thethe.DET.DEF rightright.ADJ .
  
898ANT+" it was a little bit north of that &u: .
  itit.PRON.SUB.3S waswas.V.3S.PAST aa.DET.INDEF littlelittle.ADJ bitbit.N.SG northnorth.N.SG ofof.PREP thatthat.DEM.FAR .
  

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