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Methodological Imperatives for Investigating the Phonetic Organization and Phonological Structures of Spontaneous Speech

  • J. Local and G. Walker
Published/Copyright: January 4, 2006
Phonetica
From the journal Phonetica Volume 62 Issue 2-4

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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Published Online: 2006-01-04
Published in Print: 2005-12-01

© 2006 S. Karger AG, Basel

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https://doi.org/10.1159/000090093

Articles in the same Issue

  1. Special Section
  2. Contents
  3. Further Section
  4. Contents Vol. 62, 2005
  5. Editorial
  6. Editorial
  7. Original Paper
  8. Parallel Encoding of Focus and Interrogative Meaning in Mandarin Intonation
  9. Timing and Communicative Functions of Pitch Contours
  10. Exploring the Influence of Vocal Emotion Expression on Communicative Effectiveness
  11. Methodological Imperatives for Investigating the Phonetic Organization and Phonological Structures of Spontaneous Speech
  12. From Words to Actions: The Phonetics of Eigenlijk in Two Communicative Contexts
  13. Articulatory Planning Is Continuous and Sensitive to Informational Redundancy
  14. The Communicative Functions of Final Rises in Finnish Intonation
  15. Acoustic Patterns and Communicative Functions of Phrase-Final F0 Rises in German: Activating and Restricting Contours
  16. Between Fall and Fall-Rise: Substance-Function Relations in German Phrase-Final Intonation Contours
  17. Exploring Prosody in Interaction Control
  18. A Re-Evaluation of the Nature of Speech Errors in Normal and Disordered Speakers
  19. Further Section
  20. Libri
  21. Index autorum Vol. 62, 2005
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