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    This document discusses presuppositions, entailments, and cleft sentences in linguistics. It instructs the reader to read example sentences aloud while emphasizing different words to observe how meaning and stress can change depending on the emphasized word. The document suggests reading sentences while stressing words colored in red to analyze how presuppositions and entailments are expressed through emphasis.

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    This document discusses presuppositions, entailments, and cleft sentences in linguistics. It instructs the reader to read example sentences aloud while emphasizing different words to observe how meaning and stress can change depending on the emphasized word. The document suggests reading sentences while stressing words colored in red to analyze how presuppositions and entailments are expressed through emphasis.

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    Pragmatics Lesson 3

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    This document discusses presuppositions, entailments, and cleft sentences in linguistics. It instructs the reader to read example sentences aloud while emphasizing different words to observe how meaning and stress can change depending on the emphasized word. The document suggests reading sentences while stressing words colored in red to analyze how presuppositions and entailments are expressed through emphasis.

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    Presupposition, Entailments,

    Cleft sentences
    Try reading the following sentences by raising your
    voice on the word colored RED

    Is there change of meaning, in terms of what is being


    stressed?

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