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Publication details [#14243]

Ward, Gregory and Wataru Tsukahara. 2000. Prosodic features which cue back-channel responses in English and Japanese. Journal of Pragmatics 32 (8) : 1177–1207.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

back channel cue | feedback | pitch | prosody

Language as a subject

English | Japanese

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

ISBN

0378-2166

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This study addresses issues pertaining to back-channel feedback. It is argued that in both English and Japanese, low pitch late in an utterance is an important prosodic cue for such feedback. Evidence is given for this claim, related theoretical issues are discussed.