The recognition of Dutch declarative questions

In this paper I will discuss how questions in Dutch with a declarative sentence type can be recognized in isolation and in natural dialogue. Declarative questions were taken from telephone dialogues where subjects tried to get information from an information clerk at Amsterdam airport. In previous experiments these questions were isolated from the original context and presented on tape to subjects with a number of answers. A disadvantage of this method is that it is impossible to distinguish the influence of prosodic indicators from that of textual ones. Here, an experiment is described where... Mehr ...