Publications
Publication details [#22984]
Gee, Julie and Iskender Savasir. 1985. On the use of `will' and `gonna': Toward a description of activity-types for child language. Discourse Processes 8 (2) : 143–175. 
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Language as a subject
Annotation
The authors attempt to articulate the activities (in terms of activity-types such as `planning', `undertaking',...) in which the terms `will' and `gonna' are embedded, in order to understand their use in the speech of two three-year-old girls.