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Rhetorical questions, relevance and scales

open access: yesRevista Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses, 1998
Rhetorical questions, and other varieties of pragmatically conditioned questions, present a challenge for a purely truth-conditional theory of the interpretation of interrogatives.
Gutiérrez Rexach, Javier
doaj   +1 more source

An HPSG Approach to Negation in Libyan Arabic [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Negation in Libyan Arabic, more precisely in the Arabic of Western Libya, including the Western mountains and the Tripoli area, involves a variety of complexities.
Borsley, RD, Krer, M
core  

Systemic dysregulation of apolipoproteins in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis serum

open access: yesFEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a fatal disease that damages motor neurons. This study found that people with ALS show significant changes in blood fats and the proteins that carry them. Several apolipoproteins were higher, lipid balances were altered, and normal protein–lipid relationships were disrupted.
Finula I. Isik   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Evaluation of internal reliability in the presence of inconsistent responses

open access: yesHealth and Quality of Life Outcomes, 2010
Background We aimed to assess the impact of inconsistent responses on the internal reliability of a multi-item scale by developing a procedure to adjust Cronbach's alpha.
Lam T H, Ho S Y, Fong Daniel YT
doaj   +1 more source

Breaking the News: First Impressions Matter on Online News [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
A growing number of people are changing the way they consume news, replacing the traditional physical newspapers and magazines by their virtual online versions or/and weblogs.
An, Jisun   +5 more
core   +2 more sources

Expectation Biases and Context Management with Negative Polar Questions [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
This paper examines distinctive discourse properties of preposed negative 'yes/no' questions (NPQs), such as 'Isn’t Jane coming too?'. Unlike with other 'yes/no' questions, using an NPQ '∼p?' invariably conveys a bias toward a particular answer, where ...
Silk, Alex
core   +2 more sources

Is Young's Modulus a Critical Coating Property Determining Fouling‐Release Performance of Marine Coatings?

open access: yesAdvanced Engineering Materials, EarlyView.
The release of foulers from protective marine coatings is determined by several interrelated material properties, including the strength of Young's modulus, the flexibility of chain segments, the surface free energy, and the magnitude of hydrodynamic stress.
Johann C. Schaal   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Note on –mAdAn (önce)

open access: yesDilbilim Araştırmaları Dergisi, 2015
The paper discusses the morphological make-up of the converbial ending –mAdAn in adverbial clauses denoting temporal antecedence (before-clauses) and negative manner (without-clauses).
Martina Gracanin-Yüksek
doaj   +1 more source

Negative Polarity Items, DPs and Phase Sliding

open access: yesHacettepe Üniversitesi Edebiyat Fakültesi Dergisi, 2021
A negative polarity item (henceforth, NPI) needs a licensor and it may be an overt negation, question force, or a conditional clause (Benmamoun, 1997; Kelepir, 2001; Kumar, 2006; Kural, 1997; Laka, 2013; Mahajan, 1990; Vasishth, 1999). Studies on NPI literature abound and various studies have suggested various licensing conditions of NPIs.
openaire   +3 more sources

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