Sentence-initial I think (that) and I believe (that)
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Sentence-initial I think (that) and I believe (that) : prosodic evidence for uses as main clause, comment clause and discourse marker
Sentence initial pronoun verb combinations such as I think, I believe are am biguous between main clause use on the one hand and adverbial or discourse use on the other hand. We approach the topic from a prosodic perspective. Based on corpus data from spoken British English the prosodic patterns of sentence initial I think and [ believe are analysed and related to their interpretation in contex...
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عنوان ژورنال: Studies in Language
سال: 2010
ISSN: 0378-4177,1569-9978
DOI: 10.1075/sl.34.1.02deh