Puzzling response particles: An experimental study on the German answering system

IF 1.1 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS
B. Claus, A. Meijer, Sophie Repp, M. Krifka
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Abstract

This paper addresses the use and interpretation of the German response particles ja , nein , and doch . In four experiments, we collected acceptability-judgement data for the full paradigm of standard German particles in responses to positive and negative assertions. The experiments were designed to test the empirical validity of two recent accounts of response particles, Roelofsen & Farkas (2015) and Krifka (2013), which view response particles as propositional anaphors. The results for responses to negative antecedents were unpredicted and inconsistent with either account. A further unexpected finding was that there was large interindividual variation in the acceptability patterns for affirming responses to negative antecedents to the extent that most speakers found ja more acceptable whereas some found nein more acceptable. We discuss possible revisions of the two accounts to model the findings, and explore in how far the findings can be accounted for in alternative, ellipsis accounts of response particles. EARLY ACCESS
令人费解的应答粒子:德语应答系统的实验研究
本文讨论了德国响应粒子ja、nein和doch的使用和解释。在四个实验中,我们收集了标准德国粒子的完整范式对积极和消极断言的可接受性判断数据。这些实验旨在测试最近两种关于反应粒子的描述的经验有效性,Roelofsen&Farkas(2015)和Krifka(2013),他们将反应粒子视为命题回指。对负面前因的反应结果是不可预测的,与任何一种说法都不一致。另一个意想不到的发现是,对负面前因的肯定反应的可接受模式在个体间存在很大差异,以至于大多数说话者认为ja更容易被接受,而一些人则认为nein更容易接受。我们讨论了对这两种描述的可能修订,以对研究结果进行建模,并探讨了在反应粒子的替代省略描述中可以在多大程度上解释这些发现。早期访问
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