Dewaele, Jean-Marc (1999) Word order variation in interrogative structures of native and non-native French. ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics (123), pp. 161-180. ISSN 0019-0810.
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Abstract
Inter-individual variation in the use of direct interrogative structures (N=450) is explored in a corpus of spoken native and non-native French. A quantitative analysis of the data reveals that while non-native speakers seem to avoid non-standard structures, they do not use more formal variants systematically. Comparison with data from other native and non-native corpora reveals important differences in the frequency of particular interrogative structures. The choice of interrogative structure seems to be influenced by a number of situational, pragmatic and socio-stylistic variables.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| School or Research Centre: | Birkbeck Schools and Research Centres > School of Social Sciences, History and Philosophy > Applied Linguistics and Communication |
| Depositing User: | Dr JM Dewaele |
| Date Deposited: | 08 Oct 2012 08:36 |
| Last Modified: | 17 Apr 2013 12:33 |
| URI: | http://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/5144 |
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