The Effect of Contour Type and Epistemic Modality on the Assessment of Speaker Certainty (2009)
Agustín Gravano, Stefan Benus, Julia Hirschberg, Elisa Sneed German, Gregory Ward
In an empirical study participants were asked to rate the perceived degree of certainty of utterances that contained either the modal would or main verb be (e.g. That would be me vs. That’s me),...