Pitch Cues for the Recognition of Yes-No Questions in French

Vion, Monique; Colas, Annie

doi:10.1007/s10936-006-9023-x

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“…There are a number of studies which adopt the gating paradigm to investigate whether and how prosody guides identification of interrogatives as opposed to declaratives in Spanish, Neapolitan Italian, Northern Standard German, Dutch and French (Face 2005;Petrone and D'Imperio 2011;Petrone and Niebuhr 2014;Van Heuven and Haan 2000;Vion and Colas 2006). 4 All of these investigations focused on yes-no questions or declarative questions.…”

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“…According to Di Cristo and Hirst (1993), a final F0 rising movement and a sequence of lowered pitches preceding this sentence-final rise characterize yes-no questions containing more than two stress groups against their declarative counterparts in French. Vion and Colas (2006) applied the gating method to examine the role of these prosodic cues in the recognition of French yes-no questions. The reaction time was also measured in this experiment.…”

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“…They were required to decide as quickly as possible what they heard is going to be a wh-question or a declarative. Based on Vion and Colas (2006) perception experiment, we expect shorter reaction times to declaratives than to wh-questions. Another reason for this expectation is a higher frequency of occurrence of declaratives than questions in daily conversation (Van Heuven and Haan 2000).…”

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The Role of Prosody in the Identification of Persian Sentence Types: Declarative or Wh-question?

Shiamizadeh

Caspers

Schiller

2017

Linguistics Vanguard

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It has been reported that prosody contributes to the identification of utterances which lack lexico-syntactic indicators of interrogativity but do have characteristic prosodic correlates (e.g. Vion and Colas 2006. Pitch cues for the recognition of yes-no questions in French. Journal of Psycholinguistics . In Persian wh-in-situ questions, the interrogativity device (the wh-phrase) does not move to the sentence-initial position, and the pre-wh part is characterized by specific prosodic correlates (Shiamizadeh et al. 2016. Do Persian native speakers prosodically mark wh-in-situ questions? Manuscript submitted for publication). The current experiment investigates the role of prosody in the perception of Persian wh-in-situ questions as opposed to declaratives. To this end, an experiment was designed in which Persian native speakers were asked to choose the correct sentence type after hearing only the pre-wh part of a sentence. We hypothesized that prosody guides perception of wh-in-situ questions independent of wh-phrase type. The results of the experiment corroborate our hypothesis. The outcome is discussed in terms of Ohala´s frequency code, and Bolinger´s claim about the universal dichotomous association between relaxation and declarativity on the one hand and tension and interrogativity on the other hand.

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The Role of Prosody in the Identification of Persian Sentence Types: Declarative or Wh-question?

Shiamizadeh

Caspers

Schiller

2017

Linguistics Vanguard

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“…4. One can use a gating paradigm (Vion and Colas, 2006). Gating consists in presenting the signal step by step and registering the reactions of subjects at each step.…”

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The semantics of French continuative rises in SDRT

Jayez¹,

Dargnat²

2012

Constraints in Discourse 3

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We examine the status of French major continuative prosodic contours, which are mainly realised as final rises at the boundary of sentences. We show how to substantiate the common intuition that these contours convey 'continuation'. We report empirical evidence that indicates that native speakers cannot distinguish major continuatives and questions in isolated discourse segments. We then show how to integrate continuatives into a liberal version of Asher's SDRT. In essence, we propose that any discourse constituent bearing a major continuative (i) has a default question interpretation when taken in isolation and (ii) constrains attachments at the point where it occurs, when considered in the context of a discourse.

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“…Previous research shows that native speakers use prosodic cues, such as phrasefinal lengthening, pitch movement, and pauses, to convey information about the syntactic structure of an utterance in speech production (e.g., Millotte, Wales, & Christophe, 2007;Snedeker & Trueswell, 2003). Prosodic information may also play a critical role in L1 speech comprehension, both in identifying clause types, such as distinguishing questions from statements (e.g., Face, 2005 for Castilian Spanish; Van Heuven, & Haan, 2000 for Dutch;Vion & Colas, 2006 for French), and resolving syntactic ambiguities (e.g., Kjelgaard & Speer, 1999;Snedeker & Trueswell, 2003 for English;Lingel, Pappert & Pechmann, 2006 for German).…”

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Making use of cues to sentence length in L1 and L2 German*

O’Brien¹,

Jackson²,

Hendricks³

2013

LAB

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The current study examines whether German native speakers and immersed and non-immersed L2 learners of German use prosodic cues to identify the length of a sentence in perception as a means to investigate the interaction between prosody and syntactic structure among L2 learners. In a perceptual gating experiment, all three groups successfully differentiated short from medium and long sentences, although the native speakers used cues to identify sentence length earlier than the L2 learners. Among the L2 participants, those immersed in the L2 and those with higher L2 proficiency were better able to distinguish sentence length in the gating task. Importantly, immersed participants were more likely to differentiate short from non-short sentences than those who were not immersed, and those who were more proficient were less indeterminate and more confident in their responses than were those with lower L2 proficiency.

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Pitch Cues for the Recognition of Yes-No Questions in French

Cited by 19 publications

References 15 publications

The Role of Prosody in the Identification of Persian Sentence Types: Declarative or Wh-question?

The Role of Prosody in the Identification of Persian Sentence Types: Declarative or Wh-question?

The semantics of French continuative rises in SDRT

Making use of cues to sentence length in L1 and L2 German*

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