Question Description
Consider the sentence Andrea read a book about how ice cream is made, too. How many
different presuppositions could this sentence have if uttered with different prosodies? For
each possibility, write a sentence that could go in a discourse before this sentence, and
write the given sentence with the appropriate part marked for prosodic prominence. Finally,
tell what the presupposition would be. (There are many possible responses for this exercise;
try to come up with at least four.)
Example: Andrea read a book about how pencils are made.
Andrea read a book about how ICE CREAM is made, too.
Presupposition: Andrea read a book about how something is made.