Action, prosody and emergent constructions: The case of and

Barth-Weingarten, Dagmar; Couper‐Kuhlen, Elizabeth

doi:10.1515/9783110229080.263

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“…Anacrustic coordination occupies a midway position between coordination and biclausality. As we will see below, it shares features that have been described for coordination (Schiffrin 1986;Schmerling 1974) and for biclausality (Barth-Weingarten & Couper-Kuhlen 2011).…”

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“You turn your back and there’s somebody moving in”

Hopper

2021

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Anacrustic Coordination (AC) is a type of biclausal conjunction such that an initial clause or phrase sets up a state of affairs and is followed by and and a strongly focused second clause, for example three years it’s been sitting here and I haven’t done it. AC figures in a number of kinds of interaction. One is the topic/comment conditional, as in call it up and there’s something that actually says your number. It is a possibility for enhancing certain illocutionary acts such as threats and warnings: I’m gonna take that and I’m gonna dig it into you. It is a basis for syntactic mirativity, the coding of surprise and unexpectedness (DeLancey 1997): you turn your back and there’s somebody moving in. AC raises questions about the nature of constructions and of Construction Grammar.

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Hopper

2021

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“…This means that I am interested in how the multifunctionality and flexibility of vai is made use of as an interactional resource and how grammatical structures emerge in temporally unfolding interaction (cf., e.g., Ford 1993;Barth-Weingarten & Couper-Kuhlen 2011). The core collection for the study was formed of occurrences of vai that seem to involve departures from the standard alternative questions involving two symmetrical parts produced within one coherent prosodic unit (as in examples 2 and 3).…”

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Linking Clauses and Actions in Social Interaction

Laury

Etelämäki

Couper‐Kuhlen³

2017

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“…In fact, chunking would seem to be the first step in the process of special reduction. Barth-Weingarten and Couper-Kuhlen (2011) argue that the production of a sequence as a single prosodic unit and the implementation of the regular phonetic processes that occur in such units is an important first stage in the creation of a new morphosyntactic whole, be it a discourse marker or a new construction. Our examples show that subsequent repetitions push these regular processes beyond their usual outcomes.…”

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“…Second, a much more subtle role of function can be seen early in the development of chunks, as pointed out by Barth-Weingarten and Couper-Kuhlen ( 2011 ). They argue that the development of a chunk requires that it occur in a single turn-constructional unit in conversation, that it implement a single action by the speaker in the conversation, and that it have phonetic and prosodic integration.…”

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Special reduction: a usage-based approach

Bybee¹,

File-Muriel²,

Souza³

2016

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a b st r a c t 'Special reduction' refers to instances of extreme phonetic reduction which is restricted to particular words or phrases, usually grammaticalizing constructions ( going to > [gəɾə]), greetings ( hi from how are you ), discourse markers (Spanish o sea > sa ), or other sequences that are often used together. On the basis of data from English, Brazilian Portuguese, and Colombian Spanish, we argue that special reduction is based on the general phonetic tendencies in the language, but that these tendencies are carried to an extreme where word sequences are used with high frequency and become chunked, allowing formerly stressed syllables to lose stress and reduce. The data also show that special reduction takes place gradually over time, and refl ects general patterns of change seen in the history of the language. In fact, in some examples, special reduction presages more general sound changes that occur later. We argue that the gradual phonetic changes that accumulate for particular words or phrases, eventually changing them dramatically, requires an exemplar model for the phonological representation of words and phrases, which is updated continually as sequences are used and aff ected by reductive phonetic processes.k e y w o r d s : phonetic reduction , phonological change , frequency eff ects , chunking , exemplar models .[ * ] We would like to thank Earl Brown and Sarah Peceny for their work on the Colombian data, Chris Koops for his discussion on the gradient modeling of vowel formant transitions, Naomi Shin for giving feedback on the Spanish section, and Heliana Mello for drawing our attention to the C-Oral Brasil corpus. b y b e e e t a l . 422 IntroductionIt has sometimes been assumed that lexically restricted phenomena are of less interest to linguists and less revealing than phenomena that make up the more general and more regular core of the structure of a language. One contribution of cognitive and usage-based approaches has been to demonstrate that even restricted, lexically determined constructions reveal the same processing mechanisms that operate in more general constructions. In this paper, we turn the spotlight on phonological phenomena that at fi rst blush seem to be irregular, 'special', and outside the mainstream phonological trends -the extreme reduction that very frequent phrases and words undergo. Our argument rests on the fact that such reduction occurs in ongoing language use, and therefore turns out to provide evidence for the cognitive processes that shape phonology and grammar. We argue specifi cally that special reduction is one end of a continuum of interaction between the normal phonetic processes that occur in automated production and the frequency of use of words and phrases in particular contexts. The importance of special reduction to comprehension and production can be demonstrated with the example of the words can and can't . These two auxiliaries both undergo some reductive processes which help to keep them distinct. Can reduces by the change of the sequence [aen]...

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Action, prosody and emergent constructions: The case of and

Cited by 72 publications

References 9 publications

“You turn your back and there’s somebody moving in”

“You turn your back and there’s somebody moving in”

Linking Clauses and Actions in Social Interaction

Special reduction: a usage-based approach

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