Word order in utterances of direct speech in English: a subtle balance between conventions and innovation

Word order in an utterance produced by a speaker in connected speech is not supposed to be chaotic. Even though word order differs from one language to another, a given person who speaks his/her own mother tongue is normally able to say whether a given utterance is grammatical or not. This proficien...

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Main Author: Grégoire LACAZE
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Laboratoire d’Etudes et de Recherches sur le Monde Anglophone (LERMA) 2013-12-01
Series:E-REA
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/erea/3406
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