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Testing for modal concord with rising intonation| old_uid | 13393 |
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| title | Testing for modal concord with rising intonation |
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| start_date | 2014/02/07 |
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| schedule | 10h-13h |
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| online | no |
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| summary | Speakers can use rising intonation in their responses to questions to indicate uncertainty (A: What's John's favorite color? B: Blue?), but current analyses of rising intonation predict the wrong interpretation when such responses contain an epistemic adverb like "maybe" (... B: Maybe blue?). I provide a new analysis of rising intonation, one which assigns it semantic content, that allows for the available interpretations. I am currently running surveys to test the predictions of my analysis, which, while emphasizing the flexibility in interpretations of rising intonation, do not provide strong support for my analysis. |
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| responsibles | Strickland |
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