Huh? What? – a first survey in twenty-one languages

Enfield, N. J.; Dingemanse, Mark; Baranova, Julija; Blythe, Joe; Brown, Penelope; Dirksmeyer, Tyko; Drew, Paul; Floyd, Simeón; Gipper, Sonja; Gísladóttir, Rósa S.; Hoymann, Gertie; Kendrick, Kobin H.; Levinson, Stephen C.; Magyari, Lilla; Manrique, Elizabeth; Rossi, Giovanni; Roque, Lila San; Torreira, Francisco

doi:10.1017/cbo9780511757464.012

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“…These findings confirm Enfield et al's (2013) results, who also found falling contours for Ha. In addition, essentially the same intonational association of H * with the question word hvað.…”

Section: Materials Analysis and Resultssupporting

confidence: 91%

“…The present line of argumentation thus goes against the one put forward in Dingemanse et al (2013) and Enfield et al (2013). But then the question arises: if it is not question prosody that determines the intonational realisation of Icelandic Ha and Hvað segirðu, what is it?…”

Section: An Alternative Approachmentioning

confidence: 81%

“…Sosa 2003;Vanrell & Fernández Soriano 2014;Hualde & Prieto 2015). According to Enfield et al (2013), both have a rising contour associated with their other-initiated repair interjection (French: [ɛ], Spanish:…”

Section: Question Intonation In Other Languagesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In Enfield et al's (2013) sample of 21 languages, there are only two exceptions to this tendency: Icelandic and Cha'palaa, both of which have falling intonation associated with 'Huh'. Both Enfield et al (2013) and Dingemanse et al (2013) claim that it is interrogative prosody that accounts for the exceptional status of Icelandic. More specifically, they argue that falling intonation is the default for questions in Icelandic and that the otherinitiated repair interjection shares its intonational features with interrogatives.…”

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The intonation of the Icelandic other-initiated repair expressionsHa‘Huh’ andHvað segirðu/Hvað sagðirðu‘What do/did you say’

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2015

Nord J Linguist

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It has been shown in the literature that cross-linguistically, the other-initiated repair element 'huh' is typically realised with rising intonation. Icelandic has exceptional status in this respect in that it has falling intonation with Ha [haː] 'huh'. The literature claims that it is language-specific interrogative prosody that accounts for this exceptional status of Icelandic. More specifically, it argues that falling intonation is the default for questions in Icelandic and that the other-initiated repair interjection shares its intonational features with interrogatives. The aim of this paper is twofold. First, using map-task data, it confirms previous results for the intonation of Icelandic Ha, and in addition shows that its more complex relative Hvað segirðu/Hvað sagðirðu 'What do/did you say?' is realised with falling intonation as well. Both expressions are realised with an H * pitch accent followed by downward pitch movement to L%. Secondly, the paper argues, for a number of reasons, against the assumption that question prosody is enough to account for the Icelandic pattern, and it suggests instead that Ha and Hvað segirðu/Hvað sagðirðu are in fact not specifically marked in intonation, but are realised with a combination of pitch accent and boundary tone found across utterance types in Icelandic.

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Section: Materials Analysis and Resultssupporting

confidence: 91%

Section: An Alternative Approachmentioning

confidence: 81%

Section: Question Intonation In Other Languagesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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The intonation of the Icelandic other-initiated repair expressionsHa‘Huh’ andHvað segirðu/Hvað sagðirðu‘What do/did you say’

Dehé

2015

Nord J Linguist

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“…The particles under investigation are referred to in various ways including "discourse markers" (Schiffrin 1987), "discourse particles" (Aijmer & Simon-Vandenbergen 2003) or "interjections" (Enfield et al 2013), in addition to the expression ums and ahs. They differ from words in having little or no linguistic organisation.…”

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confidence: 99%