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Echo question

An echo question is a question that seeks to confirm or clarify another speaker's utterance (the stimulus), by repeating it back in some form. For example:

Classification, Modification of stimulus & Function

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Classification

6 related topics

Modification of stimulus

3 related topics

Function

2 related topics

Range of wh-substitution

2 related topics

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Overview

Function

Classification

Range of wh-substitution

Modification of stimulus

Intonation

  • -tte Japanese particles

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Map overview Semantic statistics

Echo question

Nodes25
Edges24
Triples35
Avg. degree1.92
Density0.08
Components1

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Echo question

Top relations

related to Echoes of questions · 7
Echo question → Did, It, No, Rather, The, Where's, Yes
related to Modification of stimulus · 5
Echo question → An, Echo, First, For, He's
related to Relation with clause type · 5
Echo question → English Language, For, Rather, The, The Cambridge Grammar
related to Classification · 4
Echo question → As, He, It, The
related to Intonation · 4
Echo question → English, German, Japanese, Some
related to Function · 3
Echo question → Echo, English Language, The Cambridge Grammar
related to Range of wh-substitution · 3
Echo question → For, Rarely, What
related to Pseudo echo questions · 2
Echo question → Nicholas Sobin, Some
is a · 1
Echo question → question that seeks to confirm or clarify another speaker's utterance
related to Bare predication · 1
Echo question → It

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Important terminology

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Entity relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Echo questionis aquestion that seeks to confirm or clarify another speaker's utterance0.90text
Echo questionrelated to Bare predicationIt0.60section
Echo questionrelated to ClassificationAs0.60section
Echo questionrelated to ClassificationThe0.60section
Echo questionrelated to ClassificationHe0.60section
Echo questionrelated to ClassificationIt0.60section
Echo questionrelated to Echoes of questionsThe0.60section
Echo questionrelated to Echoes of questionsIt0.60section
Echo questionrelated to Echoes of questionsDid0.60section
Echo questionrelated to Echoes of questionsWhere's0.60section
Echo questionrelated to Echoes of questionsRather0.60section
Echo questionrelated to Echoes of questionsYes0.60section

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