The paper aims to examine the role that prosody plays in constructing the context in which
utterances become interpretable. The realisations of some prosodic features at particular …

The dialogic nature of spoken interaction comes about not only by a regular transition of
speakership among the participants but also by the constant production of responses of …

People in conversation frequently accommodate their verbal and non-verbal behaviour to
that of their interlocutor. It is observable in the matching of facial expression, posture and …

The present study demonstrates how prosody–specifically, onset level–is deployed in
situated interaction to cue frames of interpretation for talk. It shows not only that final pitch …

Telephone opening sequences from a corpus of English speaking radio phone-in programs
are investigated, following a first noticing of the potential for a pause between the presenter's …

Rather than focusing on conversation as one context among many in which to study
prosody, this paper approaches prosody as one set of resources and practices among many …

Repetition poses certain problems for pragmatics, as evidenced by Sperber and Wilson's
claim that “the effects of repetition on utterance interpretation are by no means constant” …

This dissertation is about what prosody contributes to dialogue interpretation. The view of
prosody developed in this account is based on detailed quantitative investigations of the …

In this paper I shall analyze the prosodic and voice quality techniques which speakers use in
reported dialogues to contextualize their point of view towards the reconstructed utterances …

This chapter examines those crucial moments in conversation when sequences have
reached recognizable closure and a next turn could begin something new–or not. It inquires …