Interrogative suggestibility refers to the tendency of individuals to accept suggestive information in an interrogative context. Gudjonsson and Clark (1986) have developed a theoretical model of suggestibility, and contend that suggestibility is mediated by an individual's cognitive abilities, mental state and personality characteristics. In particular, they emphasize the role of coping strateg...

Compared to the prosody study in statement-like sentence, little research has been conducted in interrogative sentence, which will definitely improve the naturalness of spoken dialog system. This paper proposes a computational model to assign stress in interrogative sentences using linguistic knowledge. We firstly investigate the interrogative sentences perceptually to label their stress locati...

Korean has so-called indeterminate words (cf. Kuroda 1965) that can be used as either interrogatives or indefinites depending on the context. For instance, the indeterminate word nwukwu is ambiguous between an interrogative reading ‘who’ and an indefinite reading ‘someone’. Thus the sentence in (1) has three different interpretations: i) an assertion with an indefinite, ii) a yes-no question wi...

A relevant and functional ontology continues to be one of the bottlenecks to the process of building epistemic agent-oriented systems. While the construction of electronic ontologies is the focus of many ongoing efforts, ontology building in a timely manner remains an obstacle. Our current focus is directed toward the notion of automated identification of ontological artifacts from interrogativ...

We present here a perceptual analysis of Brazilian Portuguese prosody expressing eleven different attitudes using an interrogative mode. The attitudes are separated between 6 social, and 4 propositional expressions plus a neutral expression, and are performed by two native speakers (a female and a male). An earlier work studied the declarative mode. The aim of the current study is to perceptual...

Previous analyses on friendly speech were made using dialogues without differentiating their linguistic functions. This paper reports an analysis on declarative and interrogative sentences respectively. Pitch and duration of prosodic words were statistically analyzed and compared concerning factors of their positions and stresses. Based on the acoustic investigation of friendly speech, tonal pi...