On the role of the late rise and the early fall in the turn-taking system of Dutch
The question posed in the present paper is whether subjects interpret a short utterance with a late non-prominent rise in pitch (LH%) as having a ‘go on’ function, prompting the current speaker to continue, whereas the same short utterance spoken with an accent-lending fall (H*L L%) is associated with finality, for example, with the answer to a yes-no question. A series of three perception experiments were run with natural data taken from Dutch Map Task dialogues. The results support the hypothesis that the LH% contour is associated with a ‘go on’ response, while the falling contour is associa... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | Part of book or chapter of book |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2004 |
Schlagwörter: | Taalwetenschap |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-28628859 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | https://dspace.library.uu.nl/handle/1874/295429 |