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Ochs, Elinor. 1979. Planned and unplanned discourse. In Givón, Talmy, ed. Syntax and semantics 12: Discourse and Syntax. Academic Press. pp. 51–80.
Publication type
Article in book
Publication language
English
Annotation
O. suggests that speakers, when they have not planned the form of their discourse, rely more heavily on skills acquired in the first 3-4 years of life, whereas more planned language use relies on knowledge acquired or learned later in life.