Anne Wichmann
List of John Benjamins publications for which Anne Wichmann plays a role.
Articles
2010 Sentence-initial I think (that) and I believe (that): Prosodic evidence for uses as main clause, comment clause and discourse marker Studies in Language 34:1, pp. 36–74 | Article
Sentence-initial pronoun-verb combinations such as I think, I believe are ambiguous between main clause use on the one hand and adverbial or discourse use on the other hand. We approach the topic from a prosodic perspective. Based on corpus data from spoken British English the prosodic patterns of… read more
2010 The multifunctionality of epistemic parentheticals in discourse: Prosodic cues to the semantic-pragmatic boundary Functions of Language 17:1, pp. 1–28 | Article
The aim of this study is to identify the relation between the interpretation of epistemic parentheticals in discourse and their prosodic realisation. Data drawn from a corpus of British English speech suggests that epistemic parentheticals (comment clauses such as I think, I believe) convey a… read more