This paper presents results from two perception experiments designed to investigate intonational cues and visual facial cues to interrogative mode in Swedish. Results from the intonation test indicate that both a widened F0 range on a final focal accent and time alignment properties of the F0 rise and peak make important contributions to the interrogative percept. Results from the audiovisual t...

A Google Scholar search for "interrogative verbs" brings up mostly references to verbs of asking, verbs with interrogative affixes, or verbs used in questions. A number of languages, however, have special verbs that include a semantic wh element in addition to their more typical question words. Verbs like this have not been extensively described, although Hagège (2003, 2008) suggests they are m...

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Abstract This paper identifies salient properties of how talk about video communication is organised interactionally, and this interaction invokes an implied order behaviour that treated as ‘typical’ ‘accountably representative’ communication. invoked will be called interrogative gaze . orientation to action, one used a jointly managed interpretative schema allows talked understood rationally, ...

This paper addresses the effect of F0 peak alignment, F0 peak height and segmental base on the perception of sentence type of 3-syllable one-word utterances by Japanese and Russian listeners. The reported study was performed with re-synthesized stimuli which differed by 14 locations (alignments) and 2 heights of F0 peak and two segmental bases. The stimuli were produced by modifications of re-s...

This paper discusses the feature checking mechanism of interrogative sentences in Japanese and Korean. We first focus on a phenomenon of omitting question markers in informal speech in Japanese and attempt to provide an account for it within the framework of Principles and Parameters approach. We argue that question markers can be omitted only if interrogative features of the sentence can be pr...

We model the differences between declarative and interrogative intonation in Chinese with Stem-ML, an intonation description language combined with an algorithm for translating tags into quantitative prosody. Our study shows that the diverse surface patterns can be accounted for by two consistent gestures: 1. Interrogative intonation has a higher phrase curve than declarative intonation; 2. Sen...

In our quest to design and develop more effective natural language processing systems, our user models are becoming more sophisticated. But we have not gone far enough. The notion of a user model can be extended to social groups and subculture to produce group models. In this paper we use ILP techniques to learn interrogative subculture idioms. From those idioms we produce a model of the interr...

In Danish relative clauses and embedded interrogative clauses are not extraction islands. However, there is an asymmetry between the two clauses. In Danish it is possible to extract the subject out of an embedded interrogative clause. Extraction of the subject out of a relative clause, on the other hand, is not allowed. In this paper we present a formal HPSG analysis of extraction in Danish whi...