This paper provides a survey of our knowledge of the prosody of rhetorical questions, ie
questions that do not require an answer and try to commit the listener to the presupposed …

This study examines the prosodic structure of Italian rhetorical questions (RQs). Unlike the
ordinary questions, RQs are not realized for achieving information and do not require an …

This study investigates for the first time the comprehension of rhetorical questions (RhQs) in
bilingual children. RhQs are non-canonical questions, as they are not used to request …

Rhetorical questions (ie questions whose answer is indicated as obvious by the speaker)
can be marked through a variety of lexical,(morpho) syntactic and prosodic cues that, directly …

This dissertation investigates the realization of (rhetorical) surprise questions in Vietnamese,
Korean, Japanese and Italian Sign Language (LIS). Formal studies on the realization of …

This research focuses on the intonation of rhetorical questions (RQs) in Italian. RQs are non-
prototypical questions characterised by specific pragmatic features such as indirect and …

In this paper, we show that Icelandic uses the phonetic parameters of speaking rate,
duration and voice quality (VQ) to distinguish between information-seeking questions (ISQs) …

This dissertation thesis is concerned with rhetorical questions in German at the prosody-
meaning interface. The objective of this work was the elaboration of the theoretical …

This study investigates the comprehension of rhetorical questions (RhQs) in Italian-German
bilingual children, focusing on the minority language Italian. RhQs are a form of non-literal …

This dissertation investigates rhetorical questions (RhQs) in Italian, their linguistic marking,
and their acquisition in a monolingual and a bilingual setting. RhQs are utterances with the …