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Example 14-16
Why
those people don't want to take that car?
Why
why
those
those
people
people
don't
don't
want
want
to
to
take
take
that
that
car?
car
Why don't those people want to take that car?
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Green 2002
: 85
Language:
African American English
by
Lisa Green
cite
Datapoints:
Position of interrogative phrases in content questions: Interrogative phrase initial
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