The sound and the query: Why do questions take the form they do?

Friday, March 26, 2010 - 13:56 in Psychology & Sociology

In linguistic terms, a question is largely the re-ordering of a statement. Shuffle the words around, make a couple of other changes, and "John rode a horse" becomes "What did John ride?"

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