INTONATIONAL EFFECTS ON ENGLISH SCOPALLYAMBIGUOUS SENTENCES
Abstract This paper examines the effect of intonation contour on two types of scopally-ambiguous constructions in English: configurations with a universal quantifier in subject position and sentential negation (e.g., Every horse didn’t jump) and configurations with quantifiers in both subject and object positions (e.g., A girl saw every boy). This was investigated via an auditory acceptability judgment task, in which native English speakers rated the acceptability of auditorily presented sentences in contexts matching surface-scope vs. inverse-scope readings. The results provide evidence that fall-rise intonation facilitates the inverse-scope readings of English quantifier-negation configurations (supporting findings from prior literature), but not those of double-quantifier configurations.
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| Format: | Digital revista |
| Language: | English |
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Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina
2020
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| Online Access: | http://old.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S2175-80262020000300013 |
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