Who's Next? The Melodic Marking of Question vs. Continuation in Dutch

Language and Speech

Volumn 41, Issue 3-4, 1998, Pages 375-398

  Caspers, Johanneke ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Continuation; Function of intonation; Perception experiments; Question; Turn taking

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; LANGUAGE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NETHERLANDS; SOUND DETECTION; SPEECH; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; LANGUAGE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NETHERLANDS; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 0345771836     PISSN: 00238309     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/002383099804100407     Document Type: Article

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