Towards an interactional perspective on prosody and a prosodic perspective on interaction

Couper‐Kuhlen, Elizabeth; Selting, Margret

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“…Basically, this means that the relevant analytical categories are grounded in the data themselves, and the validation of these analytical categories is sought in demonstrations of the participants' orientations to them. For the analysis of the form and function of prosody in verbal interaction, the ultimate aim, beyond mere recognition and description of certain patterns, must be "a reconstruction of patterns as cognitively and interactionally relevant categories which real-life interactants can be shown to orient to" (5).…”

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Prosodic contextualization of minimal responses to yes/no-questions in aphasic talk-in-interaction: A descriptive single-case study of a Norwegian aphasic speaker

Lind¹

2007

Logopedics Phoniatrics Vocology

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The article explores aspects of the role of prosody as a contextualisation cue in aphasic conversation through auditory and acoustic analysis of an aphasic speaker's use of pitch variation in responses to closed yes/no-requests. The results reveal two prosodic realisations of 'yes' and 'no' contextualising different kinds of responses: a flat realisation with no prolongation and minimal pauses, signalling decisiveness, and a realisation with movement in pitch, prolongation and preceding pauses, signalling indecisiveness. The analysis also shows how the aphasic uses a particular realisation manipulatively for interactional purposes. The study illustrates the vital role that seemingly unimportant details play in the co-constructive process of creating meaning in interaction. The results indicate an area of competence that seems undisturbed in this speaker.

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“…Thus, prosody is "one of the orderly 'details' of interaction, a resource which interlocutors rely on to accomplish social action and as a means of steering inferential processes" (5).…”

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Prosodic contextualization of minimal responses to yes/no-questions in aphasic talk-in-interaction: A descriptive single-case study of a Norwegian aphasic speaker

Lind¹

2007

Logopedics Phoniatrics Vocology

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“…Couper-Kuhlen & Selting, 1996). For example, intonation can be used to mark the continuation vs. the end of a conversational turn -a skill that seems to be evident in young children in the second year of life, as they first begin to use multiword utterances, and which may serve to create the interactional space that allows them to develop more complex grammatical structures Fig.…”

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Intonation development from five to thirteen

2004

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“…It has been proposed that both syntax (Sacks et al, 1974) and prosody (Couper-Kuhlen & Selting, 1996;B. Wells & Macfarlane, 1998) are used to project the end of a speaker's turn.…”

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Refining Musical Performance through Overlap

Duffy¹,

Healey²

2018

HUJE

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Whilst the focus of attention in an instrumental music lesson is refinement of the student's musical performance, conversation plays an essential role; not just as a way to analyse the student's musical contributions, but to organise them within the lesson flow. Participants may respond to talk through performance and vice versa, or even spend periods of time exchanging purely musical contributions. The short musical fragments exchanged by the participants are managed within lesson dialogue in ways analogous to conversational turn-taking. Problems in the student's performance are refined through both student self-initiated and tutor other-initiated repair, initiated by embodied action and play. A fundamental part of turn-taking is managing the transition to a new speaker. The presence of musical contributions allows for additional types of transition, for example from a turn at talk, to a musical contribution. In conversation, there is generally a preference for a short pause at the transition to a new speaker, and overlap tends to be minimised when it occurs. Through detailed qualitative video analysis of a one-to-one clarinet lesson, we find differences in the preferences regarding overlap when purely musical contributions are being exchanged, and that the duration of overlap during these exchanges of fragments of music are significant.

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Towards an interactional perspective on prosody and a prosodic perspective on interaction

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Prosodic contextualization of minimal responses to yes/no-questions in aphasic talk-in-interaction: A descriptive single-case study of a Norwegian aphasic speaker

Prosodic contextualization of minimal responses to yes/no-questions in aphasic talk-in-interaction: A descriptive single-case study of a Norwegian aphasic speaker

Intonation development from five to thirteen

Refining Musical Performance through Overlap

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