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Publication details [#23456]

Local, J.K., W.H.G. Wells and M. Sebba. 1985. Phonology for conversation: Phonetic aspects of turn delimitation in London Jamaican. Journal of Pragmatics 9 (2-3) : 309–330.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

ethnicity | prosody | turn-yielding

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Annotation

This is a conversation-analytic study of phonological and intonational strategies for turn delimitation in the English of London Jamaicans. It is shown that these strategies are different from other varieties of English.