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| The frequency of final
rises was affected by the number |
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syntactic or lexical cues to
interrogativity in |
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| questions. |
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| Four types of utterances
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| – | Declaratives |
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| – | Wh-questions [2 cues: word order and “who”,
“what”, …] |
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| – | Yes/no (polar) questions [1 cue: word order] |
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| – | Declarative questions [0 lexical/syntactic
cues] |
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| • | acoustic
cues must be important. |
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