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    "pk": 50429,
    "title": "Prosodic Cues in Differentiating Request and Permission Directive Speech Acts",
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    "abstract": "Directive Speech Acts (DSAs), encoded by the imperative mood, exhibit various interpretations across languages, including acquiescence, advice, requests, and commands (Searle 1979; Wilson & Sperber; Kaufmann 2012). This many-to-one relationship between form and meaning raises the key cognitive question: how do speakers disambiguate these interpretations?\nThis study examines the role of intonation in Greek imperatives, focusing on Nuclear Pitch Accent placement and boundary tones within the autosegmental-metrical model of intonational phonology (Pierrehumbert 1980; Ladd 1996; Arvaniti & Baltazani 2005). Recordings were controlled to isolate linguistic cues provided by prosody while minimizing extralinguistic prosodic cues related to the speaker's emotional state. Preliminary findings indicate that a rising boundary tone consistently signals a request interpretation, whereas a combination of NPA and a falling boundary tone suggests weak permission. A follow-up study incorporating contextual stimuli, describing both the speaker's and addressee's situations, is underway to examine the influence of contextual cues on interpretation.",
    "language": "eng",
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    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "Linguistics; Language Comprehension; Mood; Pragmatics; Theory of Mind"
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    "section": "Member Abstracts with Poster Presentation",
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        {
            "first_name": "Despina",
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            "last_name": "Oikonomou",
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            "institution": "University of Crete",
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        {
            "first_name": "Vina",
            "middle_name": "Paraskevi",
            "last_name": "Tsakali",
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            "institution": "University of Crete",
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        {
            "first_name": "Katerina",
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            "last_name": "Iliopoulou",
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            "institution": "University of Crete",
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            "first_name": "Maria",
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            "last_name": "Gatsou",
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            "institution": "University of Crete",
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        {
            "first_name": "Benedict",
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            "last_name": "Vassileiou",
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            "institution": "University of Crete",
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    "date_submitted": null,
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    "date_published": "2025-01-02T00:00:00+06:00",
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