The interactional function of prosody in repair initiation: Pitch height and timing of va ‘what’ in Helsinki Swedish

Huhtamäki, Martina

doi:10.1016/j.pragma.2015.10.006

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“…As for the design of these actions, the study shows, in line with earlier studies on Finland Swedish (see e.g. Huhtamäki 2015b), that intonation—and prosody more broadly—is not an absolute distinctive feature. Instead, function ascription relies on a cluster of features.…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 85%

“…Repetitions signaling surprise (or updated knowledge) have significantly large and upgraded prosodic features as they are produced high in the speaker's voice range and with a higher onset and a considerably wider pitch span than in the original (cf. Selting 1996 on German; Huhtamäki 2015b on Finland Swedish). The intonation contour is overall falling, but the pitch on the accented syllable may be rising-falling.…”

Section: Other-repetitions Dealing With Problems Of Expectationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Prosodic features such as pitch span, position in the speaker's voice range, and timing do seem to distinguish between certain kinds of action, as Huhtamäki (2015b) shows in a study of the word va ‘what’ as a repair initiator. A va that includes an affective stance has a wide pitch span, is produced high in the speaker's voice range and is delayed in relation to the previous turn, while a va that signals a problem of hearing or understanding does not show these features (see also Selting 1996 on German).…”

Section: Finland Swedish As a Variety Of Swedishmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Other-repetition sequences in Finland Swedish: Prosody, grammar, and context in action ascription

2020

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This study examines other-repetitions in Finland Swedish talk-in-interaction: their sequential trajectories, prosodic design, and lexicogrammatical features. The key objective is to explore how prosody can contribute to the action conveyed by a repetition turn, that is, whether it deals with a problem of hearing or understanding, a problem of expectation, or just registers receipt of information. The analysis shows that large and upgraded prosodic features (higher onset, wider pitch span than the previous turn) co-occur with repair- and expectation-oriented repetitions, whereas small, downgraded prosody (lower onset, narrower pitch span than the previous turn) is characteristic of registering. However, the distinguishing strength of prosody is mostly gradient (rather than discrete), and because of this, other concomitant cues, most notably the speakers’ epistemic positions in relation to the repeated item, are also of importance for ascribing a certain pragmatic function to a repetition. (Repetition, other-repetition, action ascription, prosody in conversation, repair, epistemics, conversation analysis, interactional linguistics, Finland Swedish)*

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Section: Discussionsupporting

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Section: Other-repetitions Dealing With Problems Of Expectationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Finland Swedish As a Variety Of Swedishmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Other-repetition sequences in Finland Swedish: Prosody, grammar, and context in action ascription

2020

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“…Prosody can play a significant role in the interpretation of the function of open-class and other types of repair initiators. An affective stance of astonishment can be revealed by prosodic cues in a repair initiator, as well as other responses, in different languages (Selting 1996;Huhtamäki 2015;Benjamin & Walker 2013;Katsiveli 2020;Sørensen 2021). To date, no thorough research has been conducted on the prosody of open-class repair initiators in Finnish.…”

Section: Research On Affectmentioning

confidence: 99%

Conversation Analytic Perspectives to Digital Interaction. Practices, Resources, and Affordances

Koivisto¹,

Vepsäläinen²,

Virtanen³

2023

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This book offers a collection of state-of-the-art conversation analytic work on the impact of different types of digital technologies and media on social interaction. It furthers our understanding of whether and to what extent the varying practices of digital interaction can be considered adaptations of the basic organisations and resources of co-present face-to-face interaction. The chapters explore the emerging practices in contemporary digital interaction and in interaction related to digital technologies. The volume is organised into four sections according to the platform or type of digital interaction: mobile messaging, social media, video conferencing, and human-computer interaction. Each of the chapters highlights an interactional or linguistic phenomenon – an action, a practice, a sequence, or a larger structure. Some of these are unique to online environments, such as emojis or hashtags, whereas some occur in both online and offline interaction, such as repair initiators and proposal sequences.

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“…Interactional Dialectology (Bockgård & Nilsson 2011) applies IL in studying classical dialectological phenomena. Öqvist (2011) and Huhtamäki (2015), for example, study prosodic forms in traditional dialects in Stockholm and Helsingfors Swedish, respectively. For the same reason I study the form V3 in urban dialects, they study prosodic forms as the primary way in which these dialects stand out from the national standard language.…”

Section: Conversation Analysis and Interactional Linguisticsmentioning

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Pushing the limits of V2

Zachariassen

2023

Scanstudlang

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Studies of urban dialects in the Germanic languages show a development where the otherwise strict V2 syntax rules are supplemented with V3 syntax in specific syntactic and social contexts. Based on recordings of naturally occurring interaction in multilingual areas of Aarhus, Denmark, this paper adds to existing research with an interactional collection analysis of actions supporting V3. It describes six structural subtypes of V3 characterised by different adverbial and object material in first position and shows how the subtypes are connected to three interactional resources used in organising storytelling, claiming epistemic authority and reframing referents or discourse. V3 is often used when contrasting one type of information with another. It does not result in a different semantic meaning, rather it existing possible meanings that could also be emphasised by extra wording or multiple sentences. In the discussion, I argue that the extra syntactic options allow speakers to say more with fewer words by pushing the limits of the rather strict V2 syntax of Standard Danish.

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The interactional function of prosody in repair initiation: Pitch height and timing of va ‘what’ in Helsinki Swedish

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Other-repetition sequences in Finland Swedish: Prosody, grammar, and context in action ascription

Other-repetition sequences in Finland Swedish: Prosody, grammar, and context in action ascription

Conversation Analytic Perspectives to Digital Interaction. Practices, Resources, and Affordances

Pushing the limits of V2

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