Perceiving incredulity: the role of intonation and facial gestures

Recently, some studies have revealed that facial gestures can play an important role in teasing out the meaning of interrogative sentence types in a particular language (Srinivasan and Massaro, 2003 and Borràs-Comes and Prieto, 2011; among others). However, less is known about potential cross-linguistic differences. This paper investigates the interaction between facial gestures and intonation in the distinction between information-seeking and incredulity yes/no questions in two languages (i.e., Catalan and Dutch) which use different prosodic strategies to express the distinction between these... Mehr ...