Local2012
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| BibType | ARTICLE |
| Key | Local2012 |
| Author(s) | John Local, Gareth Walker |
| Title | How phonetic features project more talk |
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| Tag(s) | Interactional Linguistics, EMCA, Phonetics, Projection |
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| Year | 2012 |
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| Journal | Journal of the International Phonetic Association |
| Volume | 42 |
| Number | 3 |
| Pages | 255–280 |
| URL | Link |
| DOI | 10.1017/S0025100312000187 |
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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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