Informal spoken French uses right dislocation very naturally and extensively, to detach semantic information from the grammatical information. Whereas a French news article would likely translate "The dog bit the little girl" as "Le chien a mordu la petite fille" (lit. "The dog has bitten the little girl"), in everyday speech one might hear "Il l'a mordue, le chien, la petite fille" (lit. "It has bitten her, the dog, the little girl"), in which both "le chien" ("the dog") and "la petite fille" ("the little girl") have been dislocated to the right and replaced by pronouns within the clause. This phenomenon was first studied in French by linguist Joseph Vendryes.