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Publication details [#31268]
Swerts, Marc, Atsushi Shimojima, Yasuhiro Katagiri and Hanae Koiso. 2002. Informational and dialogue-coordinating functions of prosodic features of Japanese echoic responses. Speech Communication 36 (1-2) : 113–142.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
Elsevier
ISBN
0167-6393
0021-9924
Annotation
This paper explores the informational and dialogue-coordinating functions of Japanese echoic responses whilst focusing on their prosodic and temporal features. It is demonstrated that echoic responses with different timings, intonations, pitches, and speeds indicate different degrees of integration of repeated information into prior knowledge, and given this informational function, the prosodic/temporal features also exerts the dialogue-coordinating function of directing the listener in handling the repeated information.