Experimental evidence for the contextual acceptability of biased questions and tag questions in English
Experimental evidence for the contextual acceptability of biased questions and tag questions in English
I present the results of an experiment in which 113 English speakers were asked if they would prefer to produce matrix biased questions or tag questions in neutral and negative evidential contexts. Results show speakers prefer biased questions in negative contexts and tag questions in neutral contexts. Despite the close syntactic and semantic relationship between the two constructions posited in the literature, then, the results indicate that the two are distinct. I suggest an analysis for these results building on Reese & Asher (2006) and Gunlogson (2008).
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Jamieson, E.
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23 December 2018
Jamieson, E.
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Jamieson, E.
(2018)
Experimental evidence for the contextual acceptability of biased questions and tag questions in English.
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van Alem, Astrid, Ionova, Anastasiia and Pots, Cora
(eds.)
ConSOLE XXVI: Proceedings of the 26th Conference of the Student Organization of Linguistics in Europe.
Leiden.
Universiteit Leiden, .
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I present the results of an experiment in which 113 English speakers were asked if they would prefer to produce matrix biased questions or tag questions in neutral and negative evidential contexts. Results show speakers prefer biased questions in negative contexts and tag questions in neutral contexts. Despite the close syntactic and semantic relationship between the two constructions posited in the literature, then, the results indicate that the two are distinct. I suggest an analysis for these results building on Reese & Asher (2006) and Gunlogson (2008).
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Published date: 23 December 2018
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Astrid van Alem
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Anastasiia Ionova
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Cora Pots
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