Of "Ens" "n" "Ands": Observations on the Phonetic Make-Up of a Coordinator and Its Uses in Talk-in-Interaction

Autor/in	Barth-Weingarten, Dagmar
Titel	Of "Ens" "n" "Ands": Observations on the Phonetic Make-Up of a Coordinator and Its Uses in Talk-in-Interaction
Quelle	In: Language and Speech, 55 (2012) 1, S.35-56 (22 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0023-8309
DOI	10.1177/0023830911428868
Schlagwörter	Stellungnahme; Phonetics; Form Classes (Languages); Interaction; North American English; Speech Communication; Syntax + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Phonetik; Fonetik; Analytischer Sprachbau; Interaktion; Amerikanisches Englisch
Abstract	In grammar books, the various functions of "and" as phrasal coordinator and clausal conjunction are treated as standard knowledge. In addition, studies on the uses of "and" in everyday talk-in-interaction have described its discourse-organizational functions on a more global level. In the phonetic literature, in turn, a range of phonetic forms of "and" have been listed. Yet, so far few studies have related the phonetic features of "and" to its function. This contribution surveys a range of phonetic forms of "and" in a corpus of private American English telephone conversations. It shows that the use of forms such as [[ash]nd], [[epsilon]n], or [[schwa]n], among others, is not random but, in essence, correlates with the syntactic-pragmatic scope of "and" and the cognitive closeness of the items the and connects. This, in turn, allows the phonetic design of "and" to contribute to the organization of turn-taking. The findings presented are based on conversation-analytic and interactional-linguistic methodology, which includes quantitative analyses. (Contains 3 figures, 1 table and 4 notes.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10