Intonation and Sentence Type Conventions: Two Types of Rising Declaratives
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a. A: Please apologize to him. / B: I was wrong and I should apologize? No way. Surprise question; contradiction b. A: John went to pick up his sister. / B: John has a sister? Surprise question; incredulity c. A: There’s one flight to Helsinki. / B: The flight leaves at 4pm? Confirmative question (cf. Poschmann 2008) d. A: Do you speak Spanish? B: I speak Ladino? Not sure about the metalinguistic issue (cf. Hirschberg and Ward 1995) e. (In a restaurant) B: Hello! My name is Anna? I’ll be your waitress? Polite; building rapport; eliciting uptake (cf. Levon 2016; Podesva 2011)
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تاریخ انتشار 2017