Is there a universal answering strategy for rejecting negative propositions? Typological evidence on the use of prosody and gesture

Previous research has proposed that languages diverge with respect to how their speakers confirm and contradict negative questions. Taking into account the classification between truth-based and polarity-based languages, this paper is mainly concerned with the expression of REJECT (a semantic operat...

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Autores: González Fuente, Santiago|||0000-0002-8273-44244113363, Tubau, Susagna, Espinal, M. Teresa, Prieto, Pilar
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2015
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Cantabria (UC)
Repositorio:UCrea Repositorio Abierto de la Universidad de Cantabria
Idioma:inglés
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Palabra clave:Truth-based answering systems
Polarity-based answering systems
REJECT
Prosody
Gesture
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spelling Is there a universal answering strategy for rejecting negative propositions? Typological evidence on the use of prosody and gestureGonzález Fuente, Santiago|||0000-0002-8273-44244113363Tubau, SusagnaEspinal, M. TeresaPrieto, PilarTruth-based answering systemsPolarity-based answering systemsREJECTProsodyGesturePrevious research has proposed that languages diverge with respect to how their speakers confirm and contradict negative questions. Taking into account the classification between truth-based and polarity-based languages, this paper is mainly concerned with the expression of REJECT (a semantic operation that signals a contradiction move with respect to the common ground, along Krifka's lines) in two languages belonging to two typologically distinct answering systems, namely Catalan (polarity-based) and Russian (a mixed system using polarity-based, truth-based, and echoic strategies). This investigation has two goals. First, to assess empirically the relevance of prosodic and gestural patterns in the interpretation of confirming and rejecting responses to negative polar questions. Second, to test the claim that in fact speakers resort to strikingly similar universal strategies at the time of expressing rejecting answers to discourse accessible negative assertions and negative polar questions, namely the use of linguistic units that encode REJECT in combination with ASSERT. The results of our investigation support the existence of a universal answering system for rejecting negative polar questions that integrates lexical and syntactic strategies with prosodic and gestural patterns, and instantiate the REJECT and ASSERT operators. We will also discuss the implications these results have for the truth-based vs. polarity-based taxonomy.This research has been funded by three research grants awarded by the Spanish MINECO (BFU2012-31995, FFI2011-23356, FFI2014- 52015-P), and by two grants awarded by the Generalitat de Catalunya to both the Prosodic Studies Group (2014SGR-925) and the Centre de Lingüística Teòrica (2014SGR-1013). The third author also acknowledges an ICREA Acadèmia award, and the first author a MEC-Spain FPU 2012-05893 grant.Frontiers MediaUniversidad de Cantabria20152015-01-01journal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501NAhttp://purl.org/coar/version/c_be7fb7dd8ff6fe43info:eu-repo/semantics/articlehttps://hdl.handle.net/10902/39163Frontiers in Psychology, 2015, 6, 899reponame:UCrea Repositorio Abierto de la Universidad de Cantabriainstname:Universidad de Cantabria (UC)Inglésengopen accesshttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2Attribution 4.0 Internationalhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:repositorio.unican.es:10902/391632026-06-02T12:39:31Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Is there a universal answering strategy for rejecting negative propositions? Typological evidence on the use of prosody and gesture
title Is there a universal answering strategy for rejecting negative propositions? Typological evidence on the use of prosody and gesture
spellingShingle Is there a universal answering strategy for rejecting negative propositions? Typological evidence on the use of prosody and gesture
González Fuente, Santiago|||0000-0002-8273-44244113363
Truth-based answering systems
Polarity-based answering systems
REJECT
Prosody
Gesture
title_short Is there a universal answering strategy for rejecting negative propositions? Typological evidence on the use of prosody and gesture
title_full Is there a universal answering strategy for rejecting negative propositions? Typological evidence on the use of prosody and gesture
title_fullStr Is there a universal answering strategy for rejecting negative propositions? Typological evidence on the use of prosody and gesture
title_full_unstemmed Is there a universal answering strategy for rejecting negative propositions? Typological evidence on the use of prosody and gesture
title_sort Is there a universal answering strategy for rejecting negative propositions? Typological evidence on the use of prosody and gesture
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv González Fuente, Santiago|||0000-0002-8273-44244113363
Tubau, Susagna
Espinal, M. Teresa
Prieto, Pilar
author González Fuente, Santiago|||0000-0002-8273-44244113363
author_facet González Fuente, Santiago|||0000-0002-8273-44244113363
Tubau, Susagna
Espinal, M. Teresa
Prieto, Pilar
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author2 Tubau, Susagna
Espinal, M. Teresa
Prieto, Pilar
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author
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dc.contributor.none.fl_str_mv Universidad de Cantabria
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Truth-based answering systems
Polarity-based answering systems
REJECT
Prosody
Gesture
topic Truth-based answering systems
Polarity-based answering systems
REJECT
Prosody
Gesture
description Previous research has proposed that languages diverge with respect to how their speakers confirm and contradict negative questions. Taking into account the classification between truth-based and polarity-based languages, this paper is mainly concerned with the expression of REJECT (a semantic operation that signals a contradiction move with respect to the common ground, along Krifka's lines) in two languages belonging to two typologically distinct answering systems, namely Catalan (polarity-based) and Russian (a mixed system using polarity-based, truth-based, and echoic strategies). This investigation has two goals. First, to assess empirically the relevance of prosodic and gestural patterns in the interpretation of confirming and rejecting responses to negative polar questions. Second, to test the claim that in fact speakers resort to strikingly similar universal strategies at the time of expressing rejecting answers to discourse accessible negative assertions and negative polar questions, namely the use of linguistic units that encode REJECT in combination with ASSERT. The results of our investigation support the existence of a universal answering system for rejecting negative polar questions that integrates lexical and syntactic strategies with prosodic and gestural patterns, and instantiate the REJECT and ASSERT operators. We will also discuss the implications these results have for the truth-based vs. polarity-based taxonomy.
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