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Yuki Arita – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2024
This conversation analytic study offers an empirical analysis of the Japanese turn-initial interjection "are." The interjectional "are" is said to be pragmatized from its use as a distal demonstrative and has been considered as an expression of a speaker's internal state of being surprised at something. In contrast, this study…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Language Usage, Japanese, Interpersonal Communication
Noa Attali – ProQuest LLC, 2024
In this dissertation, I investigate how people navigate ambiguity in everyday speech, with a focus on quantifier-negation sentences. Combining corpus analysis, behavioral experiments, and computational modeling in the Rational Speech Act framework, I explore preferred interpretations of quantifier-negation and examine the contexts and prosodies…
Descriptors: Language Processing, Ambiguity (Semantics), Intonation, Suprasegmentals
Amber Briana Camp – ProQuest LLC, 2024
F0 contours convey multiple types of information, including lexical and post-lexical meanings, as well as affective and socio-indexical indicators. This dissertation investigates the interaction between lexical tone and sentence-level intonation in Thai, focusing on how sentence position influences the acoustic realization and perceptual…
Descriptors: Thai, Tone Languages, Intonation, Sentence Structure