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Grama, Ileana C.; Kerkhoff, Annemarie; Wijnen, Frank – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2016
The ability to detect non-adjacent dependencies (i.e. between "a" and "b" in "aXb") in spoken input may support the acquisition of morpho-syntactic dependencies (e.g. "The princess 'is' kiss'ing' the frog"). Functional morphemes in morpho-syntactic dependencies are often marked by perceptual cues that render…
Descriptors: Role, Suprasegmentals, Intonation, Cues
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de Vos, Connie; van der Kooij, Els; Crasborn, Onno – Language and Speech, 2009
The eyebrows are used as conversational signals in face-to-face spoken interaction (Ekman, 1979). In Sign Language of the Netherlands (NGT), the eyebrows are typically furrowed in content questions, and raised in polar questions (Coerts, 1992). On the other hand, these eyebrow positions are also associated with anger and surprise, respectively, in…
Descriptors: Sign Language, Nonverbal Communication, Suprasegmentals, Psychological Patterns