Question/Answer Congruence and the Semantics of wh-phrases

Reich, Ingo

doi:10.1515/thli.2002.28.1.73

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“…Others, viewing focus from the perspective of pragmatics, propose that the relation between context and prosody illustrated in (5) can be explained in terms of focus marking, similar to in declaratives (Jacobs 1984;Erteschik-Shir 1986;Jacobs 1991;Rosengren 1991;Kadmon 2001: 388-397;Reich 2002;Beyssade 2006;Engdahl 2006;Eckardt 2007;Truckenbrodt 2012;Büring 2016;Di Cristo 2016). Here we adopt the second approach, following the implementation of Jacobs (1984Jacobs ( , 1991, which has been applied to French by Beyssade et al (2004a, b).…”

Section: Focus In Wh-questionsmentioning

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The prosody of Frenchwh-in-situ questions: Echo vs. non-echo

2020

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This study compares the prosodic properties of French wh-in-situ echo questions and string-identical information seeking questions in relation to focus. Thirty-six (12 $\times$ 3) wh-in-situ questions were embedded in dialogues designed to elicit (A) echo questions expressing auditory failure, (B) information seeking questions with broad focus or (C) information seeking questions with narrow focus on the wh-phrase, i.e. a focus structure similar to the one of echo questions. Analyses regarding the F0, duration and intensity of the utterances produced by 20 native speakers of French show clear prosodic differences between the three conditions. Our results indicate that part of the prosodic properties of echo questions can be attributed to the presence of narrow focus (A and C vs. B) while another part is truly characteristic of echo questions themselves (A vs. B and C). In combination with known differences regarding their pragmatics, semantics and syntax, this sets echo questions apart as a separate question type. At the same time, our results offer evidence for prosodic encoding of focus in French wh-in-situ questions, confirming and adding to existing claims regarding the prosody of focus marking in French on the one hand and the presence of focus marking in wh-interrogatives on the other.

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The prosody of Frenchwh-in-situ questions: Echo vs. non-echo

2020

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Alternatives in Framing and Decision Making

Geurts

2013

Mind & Language

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There is a wealth of experimental data showing that the way a problem is framed may have an effect on people's choices and decisions. Based on a semantic analysis of evaluative expressions like ‘good’, I propose a new explanation of such framing effects. The key idea is that our choices and decisions reveal a counterfactual systematicity: they carry information about the choices and decisions we would have made if the facts had been otherwise. It is these counterfactual alternatives that may diverge between otherwise equivalent versions of the same task, and thus explain the effects of framing.

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“…For further discussion of this view of focus see also Büring(to appear a,b),Reich(2002),Merchant(2001).…”

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