Nuclear prominence in ellipsis: Evidence from aggressively non-D-linked phrases
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Processing "d-linked" phrases.
Linguists draw a distinction between two types of interrogatives: discourse linked (d-linked) phrases such as which man, which implies the existence of a set of contextually determined entities (men) from which the speaker is asking for a choice, and non-d-linked interrogatives such as who, which carry no such implication. Two questionnaires and an on-line reading study showed that readers pref...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Linguistics
سال: 2020
ISSN: 0022-2267,1469-7742
DOI: 10.1017/s0022226720000134