Ha-Grice2017
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| BibType | ARTICLE |
| Key | Ha-Grice2017 |
| Author(s) | Kieu-Phuong Ha, Martine Grice |
| Title | Tone and intonation in discourse management – How do speakers of Standard Vietnamese initiate a repair? |
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| Tag(s) | EMCA, IL, intonation, Other-initiation of repair, Lexical tone, Talk-in-interaction, Vietnamese |
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| Year | 2017 |
| Language | English |
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| Journal | Journal of Pragmatics |
| Volume | 107 |
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| Pages | 60-83 |
| URL | Link |
| DOI | 10.1016/j.pragma.2016.11.006 |
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Abstract
This paper investigates the intonation of other-initiation of repair in Standard Vietnamese and provides an analysis of its interaction with lexical tone at the word level. Results from both single-word and multi-word utterances show that speakers make predominant use of a rising pitch contour to mark other-initiation of repair, a contour that has been found in a large number of languages. This rise occurs consistently at the right edge of utterances and may be analysed as a phonetic reflex of a high boundary tone that can overlap, partially or completely, with the lexical tone of an utterance-final word. Further, the study demonstrates the application of talk-in-interaction to the study of the relation between lexical tone and intonation in tone languages.
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