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Publication details [#60065]

Romero-Trillo, Jesús. 2015. Understanding vagueness: A prosodic analysis of endocentric and exocentric general extenders in English conversation. Journal of Pragmatics 86 : 54–62.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

conversational analysis | markedness | prosody | vagueness

Language as a subject

English

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This study examines the prosodic patterns of endo- and exocentric general extenders in English conversation and demonstrates how these patterns define extender functions and distribution, thus evidencing that vagueness does not signify haphazardness in their case.