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Example 55-190
met dife aster?
met
set
dife
fire
aster?
now
Do you set fire [to the sugar cane] now?
French:
Vous mettez le feu maintenant?
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Kriegel 1996
Language:
Mauritian Creole
by
Philip Baker
and
Sibylle Kriegel
cite
Datapoints:
Polar questions: Only interrogative intonation
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