The Role of intonation and facial gestures in conveying interrogativity

This thesis investigates the role that different aspects of audiovisual prosody play in the production and perception of interrogativity. To this end, two types of statements and two types of questions are analyzed: information and contrastive focus statements (IFS, CFS), and information-seeking and...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Borràs Comes, Joan Manel
Other Authors: Prieto Vives, Pilar, 1965-
Format: Doctoral Thesis
Language:English
Published: Universitat Pompeu Fabra 2012
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10803/97294