Non-spontaneous and communicative emotive interjections

The meanings carried by interjections in spontaneous speech

This paper presents a qualitative analysis on the variations in the speaking style and in the meanings (paralinguistic information) carried by several interjections appearing in spontaneous speech. Analysis results show that part of the paralinguistic information carried by several interjections can be associated to their speaking styles. On the other hand, the effects of small differences in t...

Emotive or Non-emotive: That is The Question

In this research we focus on discriminating between emotive (emotionally loaded) and non-emotive sentences. We define the problem from a linguistic point of view assuming that emotive sentences stand out both lexically and grammatically. We verify this assumption experimentally by comparing two sets of such sentences in Japanese. The comparison is based on words, longer n-grams as well as more ...

When do we simulate non-human agents? Dissociating communicative and non-communicative actions.

There is strong evidence that we automatically simulate observed behavior in our motor system. Previous research suggests that this simulation process depends on whether we observe a human or a non-human agent. Measuring a motor priming effect, this study investigated the question of whether agent-sensitivity of motor simulation depends on the specific action observed. Participants saw pictures...

Positions of parentheticals and interjections

Sentences in Dutch can be interrupted in various ways. We will use the term intercalation for interruptions by the speaker/writer that occur within the boundaries of a sentence without influencing this sentence (cf. de Groot 1949). The sentence (the host sentence or host) continues after the intercalation as if the intercalation were not there; the syntactic structure and the intonation pattern...

Mixed (Non)veridicality and mood choice with emotive verbs