The primary goal of this paper is to investigate whether interrogative suggestibility is related to certain personality traits in an Estonian sample of subjects (N = 61; 20 men and 41 women; mean age = 20.6 years; SD = 2.98). Results show that the means and standard deviations for different suggestibility scores in a sample of the Estonian population were all lower compared with those obtained ...

This paper providers unification-based GPSG and LFG analyses of Mandarin questions. First, we briefly introduce four kinds of Mandarin question, namely, WH-questions, A-not-A questions, disjunctive questions, and particle questions. Their different interrogative messages are adequately encoded with different feature-value pairs. Then, the compatibility of this interrogative information in a sim...

Interrogation is marked by several devices in a natural language. Some of these devices are linguistically welldefined. However, many of them are not so well-defined and hence their dealing depends on several factors including some extra-grammatical factors. Furthermore, different languages adopt different strategies to mark different types of interrogation and there is no one-to-one map betwee...

Previous studies dealing with the position of the interrogative clitic in Turkish, such as Besler (2000) and Aygen (2007), seem to be based on the assumption that the position of the interrogative clitic naïvely corresponds to the scope of question. However, Zimmer (1998) and Göksel and Kerslake (2005) point out that there are cases where the interrogative clitic is located in the pre-verbal po...

Prior work on wh-movement has distinguished among several types of wh-fronting languages that permit distinct patterns of overt and covert movement, instantiated for example by the Slavic languages, English, and German. This paper extends the cross-linguistic typology of multiple questions by arguing that Hebrew instantiates a new kind of wh-fronting language, unlike any that are discussed in t...

Marshallese, an Oceanic language spoken on the atolls of the Marshall Islands, has a question particle, ke, which may appear in one of a number of positions in yes/no interrogatives. Interestingly, the availability of certain positions depends upon whether the sentential context is affirmative or negative. In (1), we demonstrate the various grammatical and ungrammatical positions of ke in affir...

Question classification is one of the most important components in a question answering (QA) system. When there are fewer features in a question can be used for classification, the interrogative word and focus in question are critical features. Most previous studies in question classification used heuristic rules to identify the focus and interrogative word in question. In this paper, a statist...

Clause-embedding predicates come in three major varieties: (i) responsive predicates (e.g. know) are compatible with both declarative and interrogative complements, (ii) rogative predicates (e.g. wonder) are only compatible with interrogative complements, and (iii) anti-rogative predicates (e.g. hope) are only compatible with declarative complements. It has recently been suggested that these se...

Reasoning by interrogation is one of the most ancient and experimented ways of reasoning. Originated by the Aristotelian elenchus, it has been used for many purposes, such as the resolution of mathematical and daily problems [25], [26], the discovery of new knowledge [19], [34], [36], the realization of questioning/answering processes [23]. In this paper we present the conceptual foundations of...