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Intonation and Sentence Type Conventions: Two Types of Rising Declaratives
Journal of Semantics ( IF 1.000 ) Pub Date : 2018-04-03 , DOI: 10.1093/semant/ffy001
Sunwoo Jeong 1
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This paper presents an experimental study that provides evidence for the existence of two types of rising declaratives in English which differ systematically in their forms and their functions. The two are labelled assertive rising declaratives and inquisitive rising declaratives, respectively. Guided by the experimental results, the paper develops a semantic analysis of them. Having as backdrop an extended Lewisian model of discourse involving a conversational scoreboard, the analysis associates assertive and inquisitive rising declaratives with distinct sets of context-changing conventions that bring about fundamentally different updates to core elements of the context. In the process, it highlights their respective partial overlaps with the conventions for two other sentence types, falling declaratives and polar interrogatives. The analysis fully captures the experimental results presented in the paper and reconciles disparate, seemingly contradictory observations about English rising declaratives noted in previous work.

中文翻译:

语调和句子类型约定:两种上升的声明式

本文提供了一项实验研究,为英语中两种类型的上升式声明的存在提供了证据,它们在形式和功能上都存在系统差异。两者分别标记为自信的上升型声明式和疑问的上升型声明式。在实验结果的指导下,本文对它们进行了语义分析。该分析以涉及对话记分板的扩展刘易斯话语模型为背景,将自信和好奇的上升式陈述与不同的上下文转换约定集相关联,这些约定对上下文的核心元素带来了根本不同的更新。在此过程中,它突出显示了它们与其他两种句子类型的惯用语的部分重叠,即落语式和极地疑问词。
更新日期:2018-04-03
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