Contrasting and turn transition: Prosodic projection with parallel-opposition constructions

Barth-Weingarten, Dagmar

doi:10.1016/j.pragma.2009.03.007

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“…Such acknowledgement tokens are not necessarily oriented to as “turns-at-talk”; instead, they may demonstrate recipiency and encourage further talk without attempting to take the floor for an extended turn (cf. Barth-Weingarten, 2009; Gardner, 2001; Jefferson, 1984). The current analysis therefore treats them as markers of continued recipiency, rather than as intervening turns.…”

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“…She shows that conversational participants often expect such an explanation or solution, and orient to its absence. Barth-Weingarten (2009) shows that contrastive structures can also have a function in ordering turn-taking in conversation; that is, they can be projected (in combination with local prosodic means) and thus used to hold a turn across a possible transition-relevance place (Sacks, Schegloff, & Jefferson, 1974). The PTI approach suggests a less fixed link between prosodic form and lexico-syntactic structures such as contrastive structures, since these two linguistic tools can be deployed to achieve different interactional goals.…”

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Exploring Interactional Features with Prosodic Patterns

Zellers¹,

Ogden

2013

Lang Speech

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This study adopts a multiple-methods approach to the investigation of prosody, drawing on insights from a quantitative methodology (experimental prosody research) as well as a qualitative one (conversation analysis). We use a k-means cluster analysis to investigate prosodic patterns in conversational sequences involving lexico-semantic contrastive structures. This combined methodology demonstrates that quantitative/statistical methods are a valuable tool for making relatively objective characterizations of acoustic features of speech, while qualitative methods are essential for interpreting the quantitative results. We find that in sequences that maintain global prosodic characteristics across contrastive structures, participants orient to interactional problems, such as determining who has the right to the floor, or avoiding disruption of an ongoing interaction. On the other hand, in sequences in which the global prosody is different across contrastive structures, participants do not generally appear to be orienting to such problems of alignment. Our findings expand the interpretation of “contrastive prosody” that is commonly used in experimental prosody approaches, while providing a way for conversation-analytic research to improve quantification and generalizability of findings.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Exploring Interactional Features with Prosodic Patterns

Zellers¹,

Ogden

2013

Lang Speech

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“…B. , phraseologischen (Auer 2016;Bücker 2011;Günthner 2011b), syntaktischen (Barth-Weingarten /Couper-Kuhlen 2011 ;Birkner 2008a, b;Günthner 2006, b, 2015b) oder sequentiellen bzw. gattungsbezogenen (Barth-Weingarten 2009;Günthner , 2015b Mustern, bei denen jeweils konventionelle lexikalische Einheiten (Wörter) die Grundlage für die Bedeutungskonstitution bilden. Wenig Beachtung fanden dagegen "non-lexicalized vocalizations" (Baldauf 2016: 89; "vocalization" meint dabei etwas wie ‚Lautgebung' oder ‚Lautphänomen') wie Lachpartikeln, Seufzen, Weinen oder Stöhnen.…”

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Prosodie und Konstruktionsgrammatik

Imo¹,

Lanwer²

2020

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Die linguistisch motivierte Prosodieforschung weist eine lange Forschungstradition auf. Im breiteren sprachwissenschaftlichen Diskurs wird der Prosodie allerdings nach wie vor eine eher periphere Rolle zumeist als paraverbale Erscheinung zugeschrieben. Die Prosodie wird häufig (explizit oder implizit) als eine Art Zusatz oderder Begriffsetymologie entsprechendals ‚Zugesang' begriffen; also als etwas, das erst im Äußerungsakt zum verbalen Ausdruck hinzutritt, aber nicht Bestandteil der Sprache oder Grammatik selbst ist. Eine solche Position findet sich sehr explizit ausformuliert in den Arbeiten von Bolinger (1983; 1986; 1989), der schreibt: Intonation and syntax make their separate contributions to conversational interaction. There is where they come together, not in a higher or more properly linguistic domain. (Bolinger 1989: 78) Bolinger spricht sich generell dafür aus, prosodische bzw. im Speziellen intonatorische Ausdrucksmittel als nicht-sprachlich zu betrachten. Hintergrund dieser Position ist die Ansicht, dass Form-Funktions-Zusammenhänge im Bereich der Intonation "nonarbitrary" (Bolinger 1989: 1) und symptomhaft seien: [E]ven when it interacts with such highly conventionalized areas as morphology and syntax, intonation manages to do what it does by continuing to be what it is, primarily a symptom of how we feel about what we say, or how we feel when we say. Hinweis: Wir danken den externen GutachterInnen für ihre wertvollen Kommentare zu dem Band.

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“…Two particular functions that Deppermann identifies are that of correcting a prior (mis)interpretation, and that of justifying a 'deviation categorization', that is, explaining a specific local meaning for a word and presenting it as adequate in the context. Instead of employing the term 'contrast', Barth-Weingarten [2009] prefers to describe the phenomena she investigates as 'parallel-opposition constructions'. Her focus is on the form, particularly the prosodic form, of turns which project an upcoming contrast.…”

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Prosodic Variation for Topic Shift and Other Functions in Local Contrasts in Conversation

Zellers¹

2013

Phonetica

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Speakers and listeners have been shown to use phonetic cues to help them in tracking the ongoing structure of conversational interaction, but fragmentation between qualitative and quantitative research means that the forms and functions of these cues have been given varying characterizations. The current study explores prosodic variation in contrastive structures in conversational data, using a combined methodology adopting aspects from both qualitative (conversation analysis) and quantitative (experimental phonetics/phonology) approaches. Statistical and conversation-analytical methods used together reveal relationships between prosodic variation and interactional function, such as variations in pitch range across adjacent turns being linked to the presence of ‘stepwise' topic changes.

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Contrasting and turn transition: Prosodic projection with parallel-opposition constructions

Cited by 34 publications

References 26 publications

Exploring Interactional Features with Prosodic Patterns

Exploring Interactional Features with Prosodic Patterns

Prosodie und Konstruktionsgrammatik

Prosodic Variation for Topic Shift and Other Functions in Local Contrasts in Conversation

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