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Overlapping talk is common in talk-in-interaction. Much of the previous research on this topic agrees that speaker overlaps can be either turn competitive or noncompetitive. An investigation of the differences in prosodic design between these two classes of overlaps can offer insight into how speakers use and orient to prosody as a resource for turn competition. In this paper, we investigate the role of fundamental frequency (F0) as a resource for turn competition in overlapping speech. Our m

First Author: Barth-Weingarten, Dagmar; Dehe, Nicole; Wichmann, Anne
Attributed to:  Phonetic design of overlapping speech in talk-in-interaction: A cross-linguistic study funded by AHRC

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Bibliographic Information

Type: Book Chapter

Book Title: Where Prosody Meets Pragmatics (2009)

Page Reference: 183-203

ISBN: 978-1-84950-631-1