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L2 acquisition of Wh-interrogatives at the syntax-discourse interface: interface hypothesis again [version 1; peer review: 2 approved] [PDF]
F1000Research, 2023 This study sets out to answer one major question: do linguistic phenomena relating to syntax-discourse interface constitute difficulty for Yemeni learners of English?
Mohammed Shormani
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Syntactic and semantic variations in negative interrogatives: Contracted vs. uncontracted forms [PDF]
Studies in English Language and EducationThis study investigates the forms and uses of negative interrogatives with auxiliary verb contractions in English, focusing on syntactic and semantic differences.
Khalsiah Khalsiah +3 more
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The intonation of information-seeking absolute interrogatives in Madrid Spanish
Estudios de Fonética Experimental, 2020 Romera and Elordieta (2019) and Elordieta and Romera (2020) reported that most information-seeking absolute interrogatives in the variety of Spanish spoken in the Basque Country have a rising-falling circumflex final contour.
Gorka Elordieta, Magdalena Romera
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, 2021 French translations for examples in Picard, from "Étude comparative des particules interrogatives en picard et dans deux variétés de français parlées au Canada", published in "Langue française" (2021, issue 4).
Auger, Julie, Villeneuve, Anne-Jose
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High and low uniqueness in singular wh-interrogatives [PDF]
, 2021 While simple singular wh-interrogatives carry a uniqueness presupposition, this is not so when they contain possibility modals. Hirsch & Schwarz (2019) account for this contrast by assuming (i) that questions can have multiple maximally informative ...
Kobayashi, Filipe Hisao +3 more
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Is there a prosodic accommodation in the final falling contours of Pola Siero’s absolute interrogatives? [PDF]
, 2023 This paper investigates the final Pola de Siero’s contours in absolute interrogatives. We carried out 24 surveys of situations using the methodology of Interactive Atlas of Spanish Intonation, with examples of various intonation contours, which are ...
Bleortu, Cristina
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The Prosody of French Interrogatives [PDF]
, 2007 Our aim is the study of the intonation of interrogatives in French. Interrogatives refer to a clause type, defined independently of illocutionary forces or actual speech act values in context.
Beyssade, Claire
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Utterance Signaling and Tonal Levels in Dominican Spanish Declaratives and Interrogatives
Journal of Portuguese Linguistics, 2007 This paper examines the tonal patterns of sentences in Dominican Spanish produced in response to three pragmatic intents: declaratives, absolute interrogatives, and pronominal interrogatives.
Erik Willis
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THE ACQUISITION OF ENGLISH MULTIPLE INTERROGATIVES BY INDONESIAN SPEAKERS
Indonesian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2013 : This paper investigates the acquisition of English multiple interrogatives such as Who did what? by advanced learners of English whose first language is Indonesian. The underlying functional feature of multiple interrogatives is multiple focus features,
Eri Kurniawan
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Studia Linguistica Romanica, 2023 This article aims to analyze, from a contrastive point of view, the Italian term mica and the Romanian term doar and their equivalents in French. The study consists of three parts.
Gavris, Danut-Grigore
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