Interactional and sequential configurations informing request format selection in children’s speech

Wootton, Anthony

doi:10.1075/sidag.17.10woo

In:Syntax and Lexis in Conversation: Studies on the use of linguistic resources in talk-in-interaction
Edited by Auli Hakulinen and Margret Selting
[Studies in Discourse and Grammar 17] 2005
► pp. 185–207

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Interactional and sequential configurations informing request format selection in children’s speech

Anthony Wootton | University of York, UK

Published online: 28 September 2005

https://doi.org/10.1075/sidag.17.10woo

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