Walker2018
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| BibType | ARTICLE |
| Key | Walker2018 |
| Author(s) | Gareth Walker |
| Title | Close proximity of turn-continuation to possible turn-completion in conversation |
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| Tag(s) | EMCA, Conversation, Phonetics, Pragmatics, Prosody, Turn-continuation, Turn-taking |
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| Year | 2018 |
| Language | English |
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| Journal | Speech Communication |
| Volume | 99 |
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| Pages | 231–241 |
| URL | Link |
| DOI | 10.1016/j.specom.2018.02.006 |
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Abstract
Speakers in conversation are in the first instance allocated the space in which to produce a single unit of talk which could figure as a complete turn. One way speakers can continue talk beyond a point of possible turn-completion is by producing a continuation in maximally close proximity to the point of possible turn-completion. This article extends our understanding of how speakers do this, and to what interactional effect. Several phonetic features characterising close-proximity continuations are described. These include continuation of voicing, articulatory anticipation and other phonetic features. It is argued that close-proximity continuation helps ensure speakers get to continue their turn past a point of possible turn-completion. This argument is supported by close inspection of the talk leading up to the point of possible turn-completion, the start of the continuation, and the responses of co-participants – especially with regard to whether the point of possible turn-completion engenders incoming talk or not. The method combines analysis of phonetic and sequential details of 240 points of possible turn-completion in audio recordings of unscripted American English telephone calls.
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