Experimental evidence supports the deniability and at-issue status of exclamative descriptive content: Villalba's experiments argue this for Spanish and Catalan, and Trotzke's German study (n = 112) found no difference between wh-exclamatives and declarative exclamations under denial strategies, with all exclamation judgments at ceiling (5.2–5.7).

Evidence (3)

Exclamation, intensity, and emotive assertion — Rebutting the non-assertiveness diagnostics

all judgments of exclamation items were at ceiling (ranging from 5.2 to 5.7)

https://doi.org/10.1515/tl-2024-2022#unit-2-p6

Exclamation, intensity, and emotive assertion — Rebutting the non-assertiveness diagnostics

all judgments of exclamation items were at ceiling (ranging from 5.2 to 5.7)

https://doi.org/10.1515/tl-2024-2022#unit-2-p6

Exclamation, intensity, and emotive assertion — Rebutting the non-assertiveness diagnostics

all judgments of exclamation items were at ceiling (ranging from 5.2 to 5.7)

https://doi.org/10.1515/tl-2024-2022#unit-2-p6

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