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Publication details [#60040]

Prieto, Pilar and Meghan E. Armstrong. 2015. The contribution of context and contour to perceived belief in polar questions. Journal of Pragmatics 81 : 77–92.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

context | information chunking | intonation | question | speaker meaning

Language as a subject

Spanish, Puerto Rican

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This study examines how listeners employ both intonation and discourse context to derive information on speaker belief states, analyzing the impact of five bias types on two intonation contours deployed for polar questions (PQs) in Puerto Rican Spanish (PRS).