Sentence accent in information questions: Default and projection

Linguistics and Philosophy

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 477-544

  Lambrecht, Knud ^a   Michaelis, Laura A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

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EID: 0009170641     PISSN: 01650157     EISSN: 15730549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1005327212709     Document Type: Article

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