Sources: Archives for the History of Psychology in Spain: The Arxiu I Seminari d'Història de la Psicologia of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.

Sáiz, Milagros; Sáiz, Dolors; Balltondre, Mònica; Quintana, José

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“…(a) Iconic memory is known to last approximately 250 milliseconds (Sáiz, Baqués, de la Fuente, Pousada, & Vera, 2008, p. 21). Echoic memory 10 is thought to last a little longer (Sáiz et al, 2008, p. 23), but such factors as the time separating the sound to be discriminated and the nature and the duration of the two items that should be discriminated can affect the discrimination performance (Crowder, 1978, 1981, 1982). This can be summarized as follows: “if two activations are close enough together in time and similar or identical in channel of arrival, they will mutually inhibit one another” (Crowder, 1981, p. 175).…”

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Intonation as an Encoder of Speaker Certainty: Information and Confirmation Yes-No Questions in Catalan

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Recent studies in the field of intonational phonology have shown that information-seeking questions can be distinguished from confirmation-seeking questions by prosodic means in a variety of languages (Armstrong, 2010, for Puerto Rican Spanish; Grice & Savino, 1997, for Bari Italian; Kügler, 2003, for Leipzig German; Mata & Santos, 2010, for European Portuguese; Vanrell, Mascaró, Prieto, & Torres-Tamarit, 2010, for Catalan). However, all these studies have relied on production experiments and little is known about the perceptual relevance of these intonational cues. This paper explores whether Majorcan Catalan listeners distinguish information- and confirmation-seeking questions by means of two distinct nuclear falling pitch accents. Three behavioral tasks were conducted with 20 Majorcan Catalan subjects, namely a semantic congruity test, a rating test, and a classical categorical perception identification/discrimination test. The results show that a difference in pitch scaling on the leading H tone of the H+L* nuclear pitch accent is the main cue used by Majorcan Catalan listeners to distinguish confirmation questions from information-seeking questions. Thus, while a ¡H+L* pitch accent signals an information-seeking question (i.e., the speaker has no expectation about the nature of the answer), the H+L* pitch accent indicates that the speaker is asking about mutually shared information. We argue that these results have implications in representing the distinctions of tonal height in Catalan. The results also support the claim that phonological contrasts in intonation, together with other linguistic strategies, can signal the speakers’ beliefs about the certainty of the proposition expressed.

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“…1For further information on the archive and research group at the Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona, see Sáiz, Sáiz, Balltondre, and Quintana (2010).…”

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Archive for the history of psychology in Spain: The Archivo Histórico, Bibliográfico y Documental de Psicología of the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid.

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In this article, we describe the content, sources, and history of the Archivo Histórico de la Facultad de Psicología (the Historical Archive for the History of Psychology) at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM, Spain). This archive is the result of the task carried out by some professors of the Faculty of Psychology at UAM for the preservation and increase of sources for a history of psychology in Spain. Collections from the 19th to the 20th century were recovered because of the UAM effort and some other contributions. Most of the sources for a history of psychology in the Spanish context were unknown and nearly lost before Faculty of Psychology's task. Among other projects, UAM archive is acquiring classical texts of psychology by buying facsimiles from different publishing houses and, what is more relevant, they guarantee access to the sources for research purposes. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2012 APA, all rights reserved).

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Sources: Archives for the History of Psychology in Spain: The Arxiu I Seminari d'Història de la Psicologia of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.

Abstract: Members may read the latest information about History of Psychology and the Society for the History of Psychology on the division's website (historyofpsych.org).

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Intonation as an Encoder of Speaker Certainty: Information and Confirmation Yes-No Questions in Catalan

Intonation as an Encoder of Speaker Certainty: Information and Confirmation Yes-No Questions in Catalan

Archive for the history of psychology in Spain: The Archivo Histórico, Bibliográfico y Documental de Psicología of the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid.

Current Bibliography of the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences, 2011

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