Vol. 62, No. 2-4, 2005
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Methodological Imperatives for Investigating the Phonetic Organization and Phonological Structures of Spontaneous Speech
J. Local, G. Walker
Department of Language and Linguistic Science, University of York, York, UK
Phonetica 2005;62:120-130 (DOI: 10.1159/000090093)
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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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