The Prosodic Cues Used in the Disambiguation of Disjunctive Questions
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Dutch) Ambigue disjunctieve vragen in het Engels vormen een groot onderzoeksgebied binnen de formele semantiek. Een vraag zoals ‘Do you want coffee or tea?’, heeft zowel een polaire interpretatie als een alternatieve interpretatie. De ambiguïteit wordt veroorzaakt door een verschil in de onderliggende syntactische structuur. In spraak wordt deze ambiguïteit opgelost door het gebruik van verschillende prosodische factoren. Ondanks het belang van prosodie, heeft dit onderwerp weinig aandacht gekregen binnen de fonetiek. Dit heeft ertoe geleid dat de semanticus vaak introspectie gebruikt om de prosodische factoren te bepalen die belangrijk zijn in het ondubbelzinnig maken van disjunctieve vragen. Recent experimenteel onderzoek concludeert dat de laatste toonhoogtecontour de belangrijkste factor is in het bepalen van de betekenis van een disjunctieve vraag. In deze studie hebben wij deze claim verder onderzocht. In een luisterexperiment werden moedertaalsprekers van het Engels gevraagd om verschillende disjunctieve vragen te interpreteren die verschilden in hun prosodische
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