Barth-Weingarten2012

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Barth-Weingarten2012
BibType ARTICLE
Key Barth-Weingarten2012
Author(s) Dagmar Barth-Weingarten
Title Of Ens ’n’ Ands: Observations on the Phonetic Make-up of a Coordinator and its Uses in Talk-in-Interaction
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Tag(s) IL, cognitive distance, interactional linguistics, phonetics, syntactic scope, turn-taking
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Year 2012
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Journal Language and Speech
Volume 55
Number 1
Pages 35–56
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DOI 10.1177/0023830911428868
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Abstract

In grammar books, the various functions of and as phrasal coordinator and clausal conjunction are treated as standard knowledge. In addition, studies on the uses of and in everyday talk-in-interaction have described its discourse-organizational functions on a more global level. In the phonetic literature, in turn, a range of phonetic forms of and have been listed. Yet, so far few studies have related the phonetic features of and to its function. This contribution surveys a range of phonetic forms of and in a corpus of private American English telephone conversations. It shows that the use of forms such as [ænd], [εn], or [ən], among others, is not random but, in essence, correlates with the syntactic-pragmatic scope of and and the cognitive closeness of the items the and connects. This, in turn, allows the phonetic design of and to contribute to the organization of turn-taking. The findings presented are based on conversation-analytic and interactional-linguistic methodology, which includes quantitative analyses.

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