Disambiguating cues of disjunctive questions. Younes, M. & Hellmuth, S. In Proceedings of 11th International Conference of Experimental Linguistics, 2020. ExLing Society. ![Disambiguating cues of disjunctive questions [pdf]](https://bibbase.org/img/filetypes/pdf.svg "pdf")
Paper doi abstract bibtex This paper aims to find out the similarities and differences between Jordanian (JA), Egyptian (EA), and Kuwaiti (KA) Arabic in which cues disambiguate alternative questions (altqs) and disjunctive yes-no questions (dynqs): intonation contour and choice of disjunctive element (DE). A perception study was run in the three dialects, replicating Pruitt & Roelofsen’s (2013) perception study on English. Mixed-effects logistic regression was used to explore the results which revealed all dialects show a main effect of both intonation and DE choice; a rise contour and use of ʔaw significantly increased the likelihood of dynq responses. The effect of intonation was larger than that of DE choice in all dialects. The differences between the dialects lay in the relative strength of the DE coefficients.
@inproceedings{younes_disambiguating_2020,
title = {Disambiguating cues of disjunctive questions},
isbn = {9786188458512},
url = {https://exlingsociety.com/wp-content/uploads/proceedings/exling-2020/11_0010_000425.pdf},
doi = {10.36505/ExLing-2020/11/0010/000425},
abstract = {This paper aims to find out the similarities and differences between Jordanian (JA), Egyptian (EA), and Kuwaiti (KA) Arabic in which cues disambiguate alternative questions (altqs) and disjunctive yes-no questions (dynqs): intonation contour and choice of disjunctive element (DE). A perception study was run in the three dialects, replicating Pruitt \& Roelofsen’s (2013) perception study on English. Mixed-effects logistic regression was used to explore the results which revealed all dialects show a main effect of both intonation and DE choice; a rise contour and use of ʔaw significantly increased the likelihood of dynq responses. The effect of intonation was larger than that of DE choice in all dialects. The differences between the dialects lay in the relative strength of the DE coefficients.},
urldate = {2025-04-17},
booktitle = {Proceedings of 11th {International} {Conference} of {Experimental} {Linguistics}},
publisher = {ExLing Society},
author = {Younes, Mohammad and Hellmuth, Sam},
year = {2020},
}
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