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Publication details [#65729]

Paradis, Carita and Nele Põldvere. 2019. Motivations and mechanisms for the development of the reactive what-x construction in spoken dialogue. Journal of Pragmatics 143 : 65–84.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
Elsevier

Annotation

This paper examines the evolution of the reactive what-x construction in English conversation. The London-Lund Corpora enable the inquiry of language change over the past half a century. Spoken language change is an intricate interaction of communicative and cognitive processes.