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Volume 28, Issue 2
  • ISSN 0213-2028
  • E-ISSN: 2254-6774
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Abstract

This article, based on an experimental corpus of 1,020 sentences, provides a description of the intonation of wh-questions in Central Catalan, which had not been studied in depth so far. The data show that wh-questions display a greater variety of intonation patterns than yes/no questions. The paper argues that each intonation pattern is preferably associated with a specific pragmatic meaning (asking for information, offering information, giving an order and so far).

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2015-01-01
2025-04-25
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  • Article Type: Research Article
Keyword(s): Catalan; intonation; pragmatics; wh-questions
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