Rising declaratives of the Quality-suspending kind
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Intonation and Sentence Type Conventions: Two Types of Rising Declaratives
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عنوان ژورنال: Glossa: a journal of general linguistics
سال: 2018
ISSN: 2397-1835
DOI: 10.5334/gjgl.415