Armstrong, Meghan ElizabethEsteve Gibert, NúriaPrieto Vives, Pilar, 1965-2017-09-262017-09-262014Armstrong ME, Esteve-Gibert N, Prieto P. The Acquisition of multimodal cues to disbelief. In: Campbell N, Gibon D, Hirst D, editors. Speech Prosody 2014; 2014 May 20-23; Dublin, Ireland. [place unknown]: International Speech Communication Association; 2014. p.1139-43.2333-2042http://hdl.handle.net/10230/32813Comunicació presentada a: Speech Prosody 2014, celebrada del 20 al 23 de maig de 2014 a Dublin, Irlanda.In this study, we examine how 3-, 4-, and 5-year-old Catalanacquiring children are able to make use of audio (intonational) and visual (facial gesture) modalities in the comprehension of speaker disbelief, as well as the role of the child’s developing Theory of Mind. Our results suggest that in this case, facial gesture provides children with scaffolding for linguistic meaning, and that explicit belief-reasoning also helps children to infer speaker disbelief. We discuss the implications of these findings for the study of intonational development.application/pdfeng© ISCAinfo:eu-repo/semantics/conferenceObjectIntonational developmentMultimodal comprehensionAcquisitionProsodic meaninginfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess