Phonetics of Talk-in-Interaction: New Frontiers
| Number: | P73 |
| Organizer: | Ogden, Richard |
| Co-Organizer: | Bill Wells |
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| The last 25 years have seen a growth in research at the interface between Conversation Analysis and phonetics, with much work examining how phonetic — and especially prosodic — features are implicated in the embodiment of social action. Not just features such as pitch, loudness, rhythm, but also voice quality, articulatory setting and details of the production of consonants and vowels have been shown to have relevance to the production and recognition of many types of action, including turn-taking, repair and the marking of various kinds of interactional meaning. The aim of this panel is to present some of the challenges that phoneticians and conversation analysts face in working together, and to highlight some of the exciting ways in which work which bridges the two areas is developing. These include: · validating claims through the use of larger corpora than has hitherto been customary · the use of automatic techniques to facilitate the assembly of data collections · ways of improving the reliability of phonetic observations e.g. through the use of multi-channel recordings for the study of overlap · integrating the analysis of vocal (phonetic) and other physical actions such as eye gaze and gestures · the development of interdisciplinary dialogue among conversation analysts, phoneticians, phonologists, speech scientists, engineers and psychologists The papers in this panel will explore these new developments, with data from a range of languages and types of activities. |
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