Decomposing the Non-Manual Tier: Cross-Modality Generalisations

0. Introduction In this paper we investigate the role of the features of the non-manual tier in interrogatives in Turkish Sign Language (T D). We propose that the non-manual tier is in fact decomposable, and its individual features have distinct grammatical functions. We also draw attention to a parallelism we have observed in a spoken language, Turkish, where the intonational contours of interrogatives are not monolithic prosodic entities, but are rather composed of distinct prosodic contours designated for grammatical functions, similar to T D.

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