Åqvist’s paradox of epistemic obligation can be solved, if we use knowledge-wh instead of knowledge-that in specifications of the ‘need to know’: the knowledge which an agent in a certain organisational role is required to have. Knowledge-wh is knowledge of an answer to a question, which depends on the context. We show how knowledge-wh can be formalised in a logic of questions, which is combine...

Previous studies on the intonation of wh-in-situ questions in French have focused mainly on the utterance final movement and ignored the prosodic properties of the region preceding the wh-constituent. Yet, these latter properties are particularly interesting from a processing perspective, as they may help the listener anticipate a question before the wh-word is reached, which might facilitate p...

Two experiments investigated the acceptability of multiple questions. As expected, sentences violating the Superiority Condition were accepted less often than sentences obeying it. The status of the Superiority violations was not improved by the addition of a third wh, regardless of whether the third wh was an adjunct or an argument, though it was improved by the addition of a second question (...

Artificial Intelligence chatbots have shown a growing interest in different domains including e-learning. They support learners by answering their repetitive and massive questions. In this paper, we develop smart learning architecture for an inclusive chatbot handling both text voice messages. Thus, disabled can easily use it. We automatically extract, preprocess, vectorize, construct AskBot's ...

This study aims at investigating the syntactic status of word /le:š / in question formation Jordanian Arabic (JA). It is argued that this has two functions JA questions. The first which it works as interrogative operator, meaning ‘why’, moved to [Spec C] position one type wh-question. However, second role found other types questions, wh-questions and yes-no In these questions /le:š/ realized an...

This paper reviews the treatment of wh-question facts offered by Lappin and Johnson 1996, and suggests that their account of certain island phenomena should be adapted by assuming that certain phrase structures license binding of inherited features. In Japanese, Lappin and Johnson's INHERILQUE feature appears to be dependent on INHERIQUE in order to terminate with a functional C head's TO-BINDI...

The paper provides a semantic analysis of intervention effects in wh-questions. The interpretation component of the grammar derives uninterpretability, hence ungrammaticality, of the intervention data. In the system of compositional interpretation that I suggest, wh-phrases play the same role as focused phrases, introducing alternatives into the computation. Unlike focus, wh-phrases make no ord...

This paper is a phonetic study of prosody of wh-words in whquestions, yes/no-questions and echo questions in Standard Chinese. The production data from 4 speakers show that there is a prosodic difference of wh-words and the corresponding VPs between different question types. Wh-words in whquestions are the focus of sentence, whereas in yes/noquestions, VPs are the focus. The focused constituent...

This study examined the effects of script and script-fading procedures for wh-question skills in two children with autism spectrum disorder. It also effectiveness a behavioral chain interruption procedure, as an establishing operation (EO) manipulation strategy to increase reinforcement value information obtained via questions. The used intervention was setting which participants played their p...