Questioning and Asserting at the Same Time: the L% Tone in A-not-A questions
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چکیده
Mandarin A-not-A questions, hereafter referred to as ANAQs, have distinct syntactic and prosodic features. As shown in (1), ANAQs make both positive and negative answers explicit by conjoining the verb and its negative counterpart. Furthermore, ANAQs obligatorily end with a final low tone (see Section 2.2.2). These features distinguish ANAQs from ma questions (hereafter, MAQs), which lack a final low tone and only make the positive answer p syntactically explicit with the form p-ma, as shown in (2).
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