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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2008 Dec 11.
Published in final edited form as: Biling (Camb Engl). 2008 Mar;11(1):43–61. doi: 10.1017/S1366728907003203

Figure 4.

Figure 4

Illustration of a bimodal utterance with ASL as the Matrix Language. The ASL phrase “HAPPEN WHAT?” would be translated as “And guess what?” in this context. The participant was describing a cartoon scene in which Sylvester notices that there is a drainpipe running up the side of Tweety's building and that the drainpipe is (conveniently!) right next to Tweety's window. The rhetorical question (HAPPEN WHAT?) was immediately followed by the answer (that the pipe was right next to the window where Tweety was sitting). ASL illustrations copyright © Karen Emmorey.