Stratégies d’accommodation en anglais américain : le cas de l’interro-négative
This study attempts to observe and analyse the accommodation strategies developed by speakers of American English in interaction. It aims at accounting for the use of this complex structure syntactically-speaking, combining both interrogation with ...
Pauline Levillain
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Minimal CP And The Adverb Effect
New observations about a variety of adverb effects, with both positive and negative effects on acceptability, suggest that adverbs link to and “parentheticalize" a complementizer.
Sobin, Nicholas
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Do English affirmative polar interrogatives with any favor negative responses?
Abstract In research on talk-in-interaction, English affirmative polar interrogatives with any have been argued to favor a negative response, with supporting data drawn largely from medical interactions. Considering a range of mundane interactional settings, we find that the response ...
Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen +2 more
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Interpreting high negation in Negative Interrogatives: the role of the Other
Abstract This paper presents an account of the peculiar properties of Negative Interrogatives (NI). In uttering Don’t you speak Italian? , the speakers is biased towards the underlying positive proposition, expects a positive answer, and seeks a confirmation of that ...
Larrivée, Pierre, Mari, Alda
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The Violation of Cooperative Principles on Students\u27 Responses Toward Teacher Questions in Tefl Class [PDF]
Questioning is mostly conducted in learning process. As the reasons, by giving questions, teacher engages communicative interaction with students in classroom. But sometimes the communication can run effectively.
Sri Agung, Winantu Kurnianingtyas
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Interrogative suggestibility, self‐esteem, and the influence of negative life‐events [PDF]
Purpose. Past research has frequently demonstrated the impact of life adversity on the behaviour and mindset of individuals. In terms of the formal police interview, the experience of negative life‐events may have an effect upon interviewee performance.
Drake, KE, Bull, R, Boon, JCW
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The acquisition of questions with long-distance dependencies [PDF]
A number of researchers have claimed that questions and other constructions with long distance dependencies (LDDs) are acquired relatively early, by age 4 or even earlier, in spite of their complexity.
Anna Theakston +8 more
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The investigation of interpersonal metafunction in the discourse of schizophrenic patients and healthy people based on Halliday’s systemic functional grammar [PDF]
Schizophrenia is a mental illness that affects its patients' cognitive functions and different levels of language. Discourse is one of these levels that is severely affected by this disease.
Sedigheh Khademi +2 more
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Interrogative and Negative Constructions in Sign Language [PDF]
THE FIRST VOLUME IN THE SIGN LANGUAGE TYPOLOGY SERIES includes data on interrogative and negative constructions from 35 sign languages around the world. In a truly pioneering undertaking, the editor and the contributors from eight different countries open up to the reader the universe of typological diversity across sign languages.
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Questions with long-distance dependencies: a usage-based perspective [PDF]
Attested questions with long-distance dependencies (e.g., What do you think you’re doing?) tend to be quite stereotypical: the matrix clause usually consists of a WH word, the auxiliary do or did, the pronoun you, and the verb think or say, with no ...
Dabrowska, Ewa
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