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Publication details [#23257]
Ward, Gregory and Julia Hirschberg. 1985. Implicating uncertainty: The pragmatics of fall-rise intonation. Language 61 (4) : 747–776. 
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
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Annotation
An analysis of fall-rise intonation contours as indicating speaker uncertainty. The perception of uncertainty is seen as a conventional implicature, and constitues a pragmatic contribution to utterance interpretation.