Methodological Imperatives for Investigating the Phonetic Organization and Phonological Structures of Spontaneous Speech
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J. Local
Abstract
We describe and exemplify a methodology for providing an integratedaccount of the communicative function of parametric phonetic detail and its rela-tionshipwith interactional organization. We exemplify our analytic approach bydocumenting two different phonetic designs of stand-alone ‘so’ in a corpus ofrecorded American English telephone conversations. These two designs - whichencompass particular loudness, pitch and laryngeal characteristics - correlate withdifferent communicative functions and have different consequences for the inter-actional-sequential organization of the talk. We argue that if phonology is to betruly concerned with function and linguistic contrast, we need to induce thosefunctions and domains of contrast from a thoroughgoing phonetic and sequentialanalysis of talk-in-interaction.
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Artikel in diesem Heft
- Special Section
- Contents
- Further Section
- Contents Vol. 62, 2005
- Editorial
- Editorial
- Original Paper
- Parallel Encoding of Focus and Interrogative Meaning in Mandarin Intonation
- Timing and Communicative Functions of Pitch Contours
- Exploring the Influence of Vocal Emotion Expression on Communicative Effectiveness
- Methodological Imperatives for Investigating the Phonetic Organization and Phonological Structures of Spontaneous Speech
- From Words to Actions: The Phonetics of Eigenlijk in Two Communicative Contexts
- Articulatory Planning Is Continuous and Sensitive to Informational Redundancy
- The Communicative Functions of Final Rises in Finnish Intonation
- Acoustic Patterns and Communicative Functions of Phrase-Final F0 Rises in German: Activating and Restricting Contours
- Between Fall and Fall-Rise: Substance-Function Relations in German Phrase-Final Intonation Contours
- Exploring Prosody in Interaction Control
- A Re-Evaluation of the Nature of Speech Errors in Normal and Disordered Speakers
- Further Section
- Libri
- Index autorum Vol. 62, 2005
Artikel in diesem Heft
- Special Section
- Contents
- Further Section
- Contents Vol. 62, 2005
- Editorial
- Editorial
- Original Paper
- Parallel Encoding of Focus and Interrogative Meaning in Mandarin Intonation
- Timing and Communicative Functions of Pitch Contours
- Exploring the Influence of Vocal Emotion Expression on Communicative Effectiveness
- Methodological Imperatives for Investigating the Phonetic Organization and Phonological Structures of Spontaneous Speech
- From Words to Actions: The Phonetics of Eigenlijk in Two Communicative Contexts
- Articulatory Planning Is Continuous and Sensitive to Informational Redundancy
- The Communicative Functions of Final Rises in Finnish Intonation
- Acoustic Patterns and Communicative Functions of Phrase-Final F0 Rises in German: Activating and Restricting Contours
- Between Fall and Fall-Rise: Substance-Function Relations in German Phrase-Final Intonation Contours
- Exploring Prosody in Interaction Control
- A Re-Evaluation of the Nature of Speech Errors in Normal and Disordered Speakers
- Further Section
- Libri
- Index autorum Vol. 62, 2005
