TY - JOUR AU - Vanrell, María del Mar AU - Ballone, Francesc AU - Schirru, Carlo AU - Prieto, Pilar PY - 2014/12/30 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Intonation and its interfaces in Sardinian polar questions JF - Loquens JA - loquens VL - 1 IS - 2 SE - Articles DO - 10.3989/loquens.2014.014 UR - https://loquens.revistas.csic.es/index.php/loquens/article/view/19 SP - e014 AB - In this paper we investigate the interplay between lexicon, syntax, intonation and pragmatics in Sardinian polar questions. To this end, a production study was designed to elicit polar questions with different bias and polarity conditions by means of the Discourse Completion Task Methodology. The resulting data were then prosodically and syntactically annotated using Praat. The results can be summarized as follows. Regarding lexico-syntactic markers, the particle <em>a</em> functions as a mitigator or politeness marker, whereas constituent fronting and negation correspond to positive and negative polarity respectively. In addition, two main intonational patterns can be distinguished: the ¡H+L* L% pattern, which expresses “lack of bias”, and the ¡H*+L L- pattern, which conveys the speaker bias towards the proposition. ER -