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Poyatos, Fernando

doi:10.1075/cilt.92

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“…Vowel height may also be significant: 'the 'importance' of ah, for example, is consonant with the 'size' implication of the low vowels' (Bolinger 1989). Throat clearing has been observed to function as an indicator of upcoming speech (Poyatos 1993). …”

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Non-lexical conversational sounds in American English

Ward

2006

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Sounds like h-nmm, hh-aaaah, hn-hn, unkay, nyeah, ummum, uuh and um-hmuh-hm, occur in American English conversation but have thus far escaped systematic study. This article reports a study of both the forms and functions of these items, together with related tokens such as um and uh-huh, in a corpus of American English conversations. These sounds appear not to be lexical, in that they are productively generated rather than finite in number, and in that the sound-meaning mapping is compositional rather than arbitrary. This implies that English bears within it a small specialized sub-language which follows different rules from the language as a whole. This functions supported by this sub-language complement those of main-channel English; they include lowoverhead turn-taking control, negotiation of agreement, signaling of recognition and comprehension, management of interpersonal relations such as control and affiliation, and the expression of emotion, attitude, and affect.

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Section: Summary Of Correspondencesmentioning

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Non-lexical conversational sounds in American English

Ward

2006

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“…27It was a looooong time/tail. Trager 1958;Poyatos 1993; and conversational gesture (Kendon 2004). Most research on conversational gesture has focused on manual and, more recently, facial gestures as 'cospeech' acts whose timing depends on events in speech, and which contribute to the meaning 5 Original text:…”

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Expressive Sibilant Retraction in North Norwegian: morpheme or ‘spoken gesture’?

Bye

2020

Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics

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North Norwegian has a contrast between /s/ and /ʂ/ that is neutralized in word-initial position before a consonant, and an optional process of Expressive Sibilant Retraction (ESR), which changes /s/ to [ʂ] in precisely the environment where the contrast is neutralized (Broch 1927). ESR appears ambiguous between a word formation process and a spoken gesture (Okrent 2002; Perlman et al. 2015). On the one hand, ESR exploits givens of phonological structure. On the other, treating it as a morphological process entails claiming that the spell-out of certain (" expressive") morphemes may take place after phonological processes have applied, or that the realization of these morphemes takes precedence to phonological constraints. I argue that ESR is a communicative (i.e. non-linguistic, or post-linguistic) spoken gesture that nonetheless exploits the suspension of phonological generalizations in a way that directs attention to its iconic function. I describe the varied interpretations that ESR has depending on whether it indexes an action/event, object, or state/property, and propose that these share a common semantic core. This gesture-based account of ESR is offered as a possible model for "expressive phonology" (e.g. Diffloth 1979) in other languages.

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“…An otolaryngologist inserted a fiberscope in the subject's nostril and positioned it above the larynx. Glottal images were recorded using a high-speed digital video recording system at the rate of 4,500 frames per second [12][13][14][15]. Note that this frame rate enables us to investigate glottal vibration, which is generally 100 Hz and higher and, hence, conventional videos (30 frames per second) are inadequate.…”

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“…In White Hmong, breathy and creaky voices are both phonological [11]. Paralinguistically, a breathy voice in the English language expresses intimacy [9,12]. Creaky voice signals indicate turn-taking, boredom [9], reluctance, suppressed rage, unwilling concession [10], commiseration, and complaint in Tzeltal, a Mayan language [9].…”

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Paralinguistic information affects phonation types: A case study using high-speed video images

Fujimoto

Maekawa

2013

Acoust. Sci. & Tech.

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A case study on the correlation between phonation type and paralinguistic information in Japanese has carried out using a high-speed digital video imaging system. The results showed that ''breathy'' and ''creaky'' phonations corresponded to ''disappointment'' and ''suspicion''-related utterances, respectively. Such influence of paralinguistic information stretches over segments including voiceless consonants. This means the alteration due to paralinguistic information is not limited to voice quality but to whole settings of the larynx. These findings are in accord with those of our articulatory study. They suggest that the domain of the phonatory and articulatory setting due to paralinguistic information is the whole utterances, rather than individual segments.

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Paralanguage

Cited by 67 publications

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Non-lexical conversational sounds in American English

Non-lexical conversational sounds in American English

Expressive Sibilant Retraction in North Norwegian: morpheme or ‘spoken gesture’?

Paralinguistic information affects phonation types: A case study using high-speed video images

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