Walker2012
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| BibType | ARTICLE |
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| Author(s) | Gareth Walker |
| Title | Coordination and interpretation of vocal and visible resources: “trail-off” conjunctions |
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| Tag(s) | Interactional Linguistics, EMCA, trail-off, conversation, gaze, gesture, phonetics, turn-taking |
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| Year | 2012 |
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| Journal | Language and Speech |
| Volume | 55 |
| Number | 1 |
| Pages | 141–163 |
| URL | Link |
| DOI | 10.1177/0023830911428858 |
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Abstract
The empirical focus of this paper is a conversational turn-taking phenomenon in which conjunctions produced immediately after a point of possible syntactic and pragmatic completion are treated by co-participants as points of possible completion and transition relevance. The data for this study are audio-video recordings of 5 unscripted face-to-face interactions involving native speakers of US English, yielding 28 'trail-off' conjunctions. Detailed sequential analysis of talk is combined with analysis of visible features (including gaze, posture, gesture and involvement with material objects) and technical phonetic analysis. A range of phonetic and visible features are shown to regularly co-occur in the production of 'trail-off' conjunctions. These features distinguish them from other conjunctions followed by the cessation of talk.
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