Multimodal aspects of sentence comprehension: Do facial and color cues interact with processing negated and affirmative sentences?
Emanuel Schütt,
Merle Weicker,
Carolin Dudschig
Abstract:Negation is usually considered as a linguistic operator reversing the truth value of a proposition. However, there are various ways to express negation in a multimodal manner. It still remains an unresolved issue whether nonverbal expressions of negation can influence linguistic negation comprehension. Based on extensive evidence demonstrating that language comprehenders are able to instantly integrate extralinguistic information such as a speaker's identity, we expected that nonverbal cues of negation and aff… Show more
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