caa a22 4500 46793844X CHVBK 20180406153004.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170328e20060901xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10936-006-9023-x doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10936-006-9023-x Pitch Cues for the Recognition of Yes-No Questions in French [Elektronische Daten] [Monique Vion, Annie Colas] Linguistic studies of the intonation of Yes-No questions in French show that, in questions containing more than two stress groups, interrogative intonation is characterized by a sequence of lowered pitches or downstepped tones which precede the final rise. The gating paradigm was used here to determine whether subjects listening to French NP utterances containing three stress groups could indicate whether the utterance was an statement or a question before the final rise was heard. Although the task was difficult, findings indicate that listeners can in fact to a certain extent, recognize with mid confidence ratings, the intonational device of a question while they were hearing the downstepped tones preceding the final rise. Springer Science+Business Media, Inc., 2006 French language nationallicence Melodic cues nationallicence Yes-No question nationallicence Recognition nationallicence Gating paradigm nationallicence Vion Monique CNRS UMR 6057: Parole & Langage, Psycholinguistics team, University of Provence, Air-en-Provence Cedex 1, France aut Colas Annie CNRS UMR 6057: Parole & Langage, Psycholinguistics team, University of Provence, Air-en-Provence Cedex 1, France aut Journal of Psycholinguistic Research Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; http://www.springer-ny.com 35/5(2006-09-01), 427-445 0090-6905 35:5<427 2006 35 10936 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10936-006-9023-x text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10936-006-9023-x text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Vion Monique CNRS UMR 6057: Parole & Langage, Psycholinguistics team, University of Provence, Air-en-Provence Cedex 1, France aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Colas Annie CNRS UMR 6057: Parole & Langage, Psycholinguistics team, University of Provence, Air-en-Provence Cedex 1, France aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of Psycholinguistic Research Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; http://www.springer-ny.com 35/5(2006-09-01), 427-445 0090-6905 35:5<427 2006 35 10936 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer