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Publication details [#53036]

Szczepek Reed, Beatrice. 2010. Speech rhythm across turn transitions in cross-cultural talk-in-interaction. Journal of Pragmatics 42 (4) : 1037–1059.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

crosscultural communication | rhythm | talk-in-interaction | turn-taking

Language as a subject

English, British

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This study argues that in cross-cultural talk-in-interaction, incoming speakers of syllable-timed languages (in turn transitions), initially meet the tendency towards rhythmic speech alignment in stress-timed languages such as British English, before continuing ‘in their own time’.