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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"declaratives"”.
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True to Form: Rising and Falling Declaratives as Questions in English
Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, Santa Cruz. 2001.
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Some difficulties in responding to negative polar interrogatives and negative declaratives in English and pedagogical implications for Japanese EFL learners
Traditional Japanese learners of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) are taught to respond to negative questions (e.g. Do you not like English?) with yes for positive answers (e.g. Yes, I do) and no for negative answers (e.g. No, I don't). However, this is subject to variation in native speaker …
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The Intonational System of Dominican Spanish: Findings and Analysis
… the lack of initial tonal difference between DS declaratives and absolute interrogatives, the presence of nuclear upstepping to distinguish between declaratives and absolute interrogatives, and an elevated initial tonal level in pronominal interrogatives.
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High Initial Tones and Plateaux in Spanish and Portuguese Neutral Declaratives: Consequences to the Relevance of F0, Duration and Vowel Quality as Stress Correlates
… a direct comparison containing neutral declaratives in both Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese was elaborated. The results show that indeed Portuguese presents a more complex intonational system than Spanish in declaratives sentence initial position. Results suggest that pitch in Brazilian …
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Language Contact in Majorca: An Experimental Sociophonetic Approach
… This was true for both the intonation of declaratives and absolute interrogatives. On the other hand, the intonation of Catalan seems to remain mostly unaffected. Regarding segmental phonetics, on the other hand, there seems to be a tendency for some speakers towards develarizing alveolar …
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Towards an analysis of Turinese Italian intonation and theoretical implications for intonational phonology
… of/Dei they are followed by a L- phrase tone in declaratives and a Hphrase tone in yes/no interrogatives; on the other hand when the LH tones map onto prominent syllables of topics they are always followed by a H- phrase tone. Finally, the unstable mapping of the LH tone onto the FO contour found …
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Why even ask? : on the pragmatics of questions and the semantics of answers
… of expressions introducing presuppositions in declaratives. The strategy I pursue in this investigation consists in looking at cases where presuppositional material affects the interpretation of a question in ways that go beyond the mere introduction of a presupposition. Even and certain NPIs …
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A linguistic study of forms of address in Kuwaiti colloquial Arabic
… distinctions, such as imperatives, declaratives, tag-questions, etc.
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Intonation in Luo
… is also observed as a final effect in both declaratives and questions. Downstep is also a final effect triggered by a boundary L%. Questions are produced with Pitch Range Expansion triggered by a left edge -H intonational tone. There is no prominence on focused constituents but focus …
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Recovering Ergativity in Heritage Samoan
… judgement of key ergative features in declaratives, wh-questions, and relative clauses in three distinct speaker groups: native, heritage, and L2. The findings from this dissertation suggest that ergativity in Samoan is indeed a fragile system particularly susceptible to decreased …
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Prepositional Phrase Attachment Ambiguities in Declarative and Interrogative Contexts: Oral Reading Data
… versions was smaller for interrogatives than for declaratives. Ultimately, however, no statistically significant interaction between Speech Act and PP2 Status was found.</p> <p>Further studies seeking behavioral evidence of the informal intuition motivating this research are proposed. Also offered …
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The neurofunctional correlates of sentence processing: focus on difficulties of morphosyntactic processing and thematic role assignment in aphasia
… obtained by considering just one sentence type (declaratives) and by relying on basic neuroimaging data. To go beyond these limitations, the final step of the project relied on more comprehensive behavioral analyses and more advanced neuroimaging techniques (study 3 – Chapter 3). The SCOPRO …
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Independent clause Sesotho personal names as texts in context: a systemic functional linguistics approach
… Mood types which make them function as declaratives, imperatives, interrogatives and exclamatives depending on the awarder�s evaluation. The study also finds that in negotiating attitudes, modality is highly incorporated. The study concludes that Sesotho names conform to the logical …
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Combi-BP: automating the data-oriented optimization in business processes. From declarative to executable models.
… of both paradigms: the exibility of the declaratives, and the automatic execution in a BPMS of the imperatives. On the one hand, we want to describe a exible model using a declarative description where the exchanged data and an optimization objective are included. In the other hand, this …
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Negation and Aspect: A comparative study of Mandarin and Cantonese varieties
… requirements of the negators. In negative declaratives without aspectual marking (bare negatives), Chapters 2 shows that where a variety has more than one standard negator, the distribution of the negators mostly creates systematic semantic contrast instead of any grammaticality …
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„Auf einmal der Hund hat sich mies erschrocken.“ Eine korpuslinguistische Analyse von V3-Deklarativa mono- und bilingualer L1-Sprecher:innen sowie fortgeschrittener Lernender des Deutschen
V3-Deklarativa – wie z.B. ‚Auf einmal der Hund hat sich mies erschrocken‘ – kommen sowohl bei bilingualen als auch bei monolingualen L1-Sprecher:innen des Deutschen vor. Im Rahmen einer korpuslinguistischen Analyse anhand des RUEG-Korpus (Wiese et al. 2021) untersucht diese Masterarbeit die …