Local, J. and Walker, G. (2005) Methodological imperatives for investigating the phonetic organisation and phonological structures of spontaneous speech. Phonetica, 62 (2-4). 120 - 130. ISSN 0031-8388
Abstract
We describe and exemplify a methodology for providing an integrated account of the communicative function of parametric phonetic detail and its rela- tionship with interactional organization. We exemplify our analytic approach by documenting two different phonetic designs of stand-alone ‘so’ in a corpus of recorded American English telephone conversations. These two designs – which encompass particular loudness, pitch and laryngeal characteristics – correlate with different communicative functions and have different consequences for the inter- actional-sequential organization of the talk. We argue that if phonology is to be truly concerned with function and linguistic contrast, we need to induce those functions and domains of contrast from a thoroughgoing phonetic and sequential analysis of talk-in-interaction.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2005 Karger. This is an author produced version of a paper subsequently published in Phonetica. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Arts and Humanities (Sheffield) > School of English (Sheffield) > Department of English Language and Linguistics (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 29 Jul 2015 13:38 |
Last Modified: | 24 Mar 2018 09:22 |
Published Version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000090093 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Karger |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1159/000090093 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:88508 |