This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The present paper is concerned with licensing Negative Polarity Items (NPI) in Hungarian, both locally and across clause boundaries. Two types ...

Abstract: The study aims at investigating Jinan EFL learners' intonation patterns of Wh-questions from the phonological perspective. When the nuclear accent locates at the beginning of a sentence, ...

Introduction: This study investigates clients’ resisting practices when reacting to business coaches’ wh-questions. Neither the sequential organization of questions nor client resistance to questions ...

Wh-question has aroused considerable attention of linguists around the world. English is a wh-movement language, while Chinese is commonly recognized as a wh-in-situ language. By the advent of the ...

Department of Linguistics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States Figure 3. Predictions for ERP correlates of Mandarin wh-dependencies as a function of the length of the embedded clause.

Parents field 468 difficult questions from their kids each year, according to new research. And with parents likely to be home with their families during the day, respondents might be facing more ...

The present study explores affective stance in conversational storytelling by investigating the ways in which unknowing story recipients display affective stances toward a teller’s story through ...