ORIGINAL PAPER Audiovisual Correlates of Interrogativity: A Comparative Analysis of Catalan and Dutch Joan Borra `s-Comes • Constantijn Kaland • Pilar Prieto • Marc Swerts Ó Springer Science+Business Media New York 2013 Abstract Languages employ different strategies to mark an utterance as a polar (yes–no) question, including syntax, intonation and gestures. This study analyzes the production and perception of information-seeking questions and broad focus statements in Dutch and Catalan. These languages use intonation for marking questionhood, but Dutch also exploits syntactic variation for this purpose. A production task revealed the expected language- specific auditory differences, but also showed that gaze and eyebrow-raising are used in this distinction. A follow-up perception experiment revealed that perceivers relied greatly on auditory information in determining whether an utterance is a question or a statement, but accuracy was further enhanced when visual information was added. Finally, the study demonstrates that the concentration of several response-mobilizing cues in a sentence is positively correlated with the perceivers’ ratings of these utterances as interrogatives. Keywords Information-seeking questions Á Speech perception Á Gaze Á Dutch Á Catalan J. Borra `s-Comes (&) Á P. Prieto Departament de Traduccio ´ i Cie `ncies del Llenguatge, Campus de la Comunicacio ´, Poblenou, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, C/Roc Boronat, 138, 08018 Barcelona, Spain e-mail: joan.borras@upf.edu P. Prieto e-mail: pilar.prieto@upf.edu C. Kaland Á M. Swerts Tilburg University, Tilburg, The Netherlands e-mail: c.c.l.kaland@uvt.nl M. Swerts e-mail: m.g.j.swerts@uvt.nl P. Prieto Institucio ´ Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avanc ¸ats (ICREA), Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain 123 J Nonverbal Behav DOI 10.1007/s10919-013-0162-0