Tatjana Scheffler<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@texttheater" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>texttheater</span></a></span> tons of research of question tags, I highly doubt this is from German influence. Haven't looked specifically into English ", or?" (but have a lot into German TQs), but I see differences in:<br>- intonation<br>- interpretation<br>I think the English or? TQ is probably some kind of trailing alternative question (which the German TQs definitely are not). We have a bunch of experimental items / judgement items / corpus tests one could do to test this research question <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/linguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>linguistics</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/tagQuestions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>tagQuestions</span></a></p>