The pragmatics of exhaustivity in embedded questions: an experimental comparison of know and predict in German and English

IntroductionWe present a cross-linguistic experimental study that explores the exhaustivity properties of questions embedded under wissen/to know and korrekt vorhersagen/to correctly predict in German and English. While past theoretical literature has held that such embedded questions should only be...

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Published in:	Frontiers in Psychology
Main Authors:	Lea Fricke, Emilie Destruel, Malte Zimmermann, Edgar Onea
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Frontiers Media S.A. 2023-09-01
Subjects:	experimental pragmatics embedded questions exhaustivity probabilistic modeling English German
Online Access:	https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1148275/full