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| Title: | How Phonetic Features Project More Talk |
| Author: | John Local |
| Institution: | University of York |
| Author: | Gareth Walker |
| Institution: | University of Sheffield |
| Linguistic Field: | Discourse Analysis; Phonetics |
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| Abstract: | Investigations into the management of turn-taking have typically focussed on pitch and other prosodic phenomena, particularly pitch-accents. Here, non-pitch phonetic features and their role in turn-taking are described. Through sustained phonetic and interactional analysis of a naturally occurring, 12-minute long telephone call between two adult speakers of British English, sets of talk-projecting and turn-projecting features are identified. Talk-projecting features include the avoidance of durational lengthening, articulatory anticipation, continuation of voicing, the production of talk in maximally close proximity to a preceding point of possible turn-completion, and the reduction of consonants and vowels. Turn-projecting features include the converse of each of the talk-projecting features, and two other distinct features: release of plosives at the point of possible turn-completion, and the production of audible outbreaths. We show that features of articulatory and phonatory quality and duration are relevant factors in the design and treatment of talk as talk- or turn-projective. |
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This article appears in Journal of the International Phonetic Association Vol. 42, Issue 3, which you can read on Cambridge's site or on LINGUIST . |
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