Linguistic theory of question - Maria Polinsky

Linguist Maria Polinsky from Harvard University on polar questions, strategy of asking in different languages, and cross-linguistic understanding of WH questions.
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Nice talk. The valley girl uptick holds for declarative statements, but I don't think it's inverted for questions. I'm from the valley!