Doubt, incredulity, and particles in Japanese falling interrogatives

摘要

I propose an analysis of the particles no, ka, yo, and ne as speech act modifiers, accounting for the readings of falling interrogatives with and without particles by predicting what they convey about the speaker's belief revision and formation process. The analysis is set in a ccp-framework formalizing utterance felicity in terms of belief and evidence conditions in which speech act felicity is compositionally derived from illocutionary force, sentence final intonation, and modification by particles.