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Turn transition, creak and glottal stop in Finnish talk-in-interaction
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Finnish talk-in-interaction is shown to use creak and glottal stops distinctively as discussed by the authors, with turn-yielding functions and turn-holding functions.Abstract:
Finnish talk-in-interaction is shown to use creak and glottal stops distinctively. Creak has turn-yielding functions, and glottal stops have turn-holding functions. Rather than either intuition or the use of large corpora with no attention to the interactional function in which the talk is embedded, the methodology used is that of interactional linguistics (e.g. Couper-Kuhlen & Selting 1996 for a prosodic approach), which places emphasis on demonstrating participants' local orientation to linguistic categories within interactional sequences.read more
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