Conversational strategies: towards a phonological description of turn-taking in Akan.

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dc.contributor.authorObeng, Samuel Gyasi
dc.date.accessioned2008-07-24T17:56:04Z
dc.date.available2008-07-24T17:56:04Z
dc.date.issued1989
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dc.description.abstractPhonetic features have function relevance for conversational participants. I provide evidence from three natural conversations ( in Akan) to show that turn-taking correlates with such phonetic features as tempo and rhythm. I argue that rallentando or lento tempo deployed singly or conjointly with a drawled-syllable-time rhythm is turn delimitative. Allegro or accelerando tempo and a clipped-syllable-time rhythm are projective of further speakership by a current speaker. I also show co-participants' response to such features.
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dc.identifier.citationObeng, Samuel Gyasi. "Conversational strategies: towards a phonological description of turn-taking in Akan." Journal of West African Languages 19, no. 1 (1989):104-120.
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/2022/3153
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherWest African Linguistic Society
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dc.rights.urihttp://www.journalofwestafricanlanguages.org
dc.subjectPhonetics
dc.subjectAfrican languages
dc.subjectconversation analysis
dc.subjectGhana
dc.subjectsociolinguistics
dc.titleConversational strategies: towards a phonological description of turn-taking in Akan.
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